OpenAI says it could reach AGI before the end of 2026

OpenAI believes it will be able to achieve artificial general intelligence in 2026. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, said in an interview with TIME Magazine that his organization hasn’t achieved AGI yet but will have an internal version soon enough. Sam said OpenAI is “not quite yet” there.

OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer Mark Chen gave a number to the gap and said OpenAI is “80% of the way” toward AGI. Co-founder Greg Brockman went further, saying people may later view this stretch as the point when AGI first showed up.

This TIME piece follows nearly three weeks of interviews with more than two dozen people from OpenAI’s executives to its employees, investors, and competitors. This company’s confidence is based on its new line of models, named Astra.

OpenAI introduced Astra last year as a system designed to mimic an automatic research assistant. The chief scientist of OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki, claims that this goal has already been achieved.

Jakub also said that one could give Astra an experiment to conduct; it will generate the required code within the software environment at OpenAI, do the experiment, and come back with the results. Jakub also added that Astra could take a research paper and complete the task within a week’s time.

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