OpenAI officially expects AGI by end of *this* year (2026)

"Altman told me that OpenAI was “not quite yet” there, but that by the end of the year the company would have an internal system he would call AGI."

We did it friends.

And: OpenAI has already internally built autonomous AI researchersbased on its benchmarks. It's the well-known GPT Astra.

"Pachocki says the company has already met its internal benchmark for an automated AI research intern. Given an experimental idea, he says, Astra can implement it inside OpenAI’s code base, run the experiment, and return results, or take a paper and perform work that previously occupied a human researcher for a week."

Astra will have the biggest impact on knowledgework there is

"Astra would enable “persistent agents,” he explained—virtual colleagues toiling for sustained periods on tasks. But its biggest impact, he predicted, would come from people using it to discover new knowledge. “I expect this will be the first model where the model actually invents new things in a way that matters,” Altman told the group. “That’s a very AGI-like thing.”

We did it friends. The finishing line is within sight. This year will be the turning point. Forever.

I am so damn hyped.