Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' after OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declared that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has arrived following the release of OpenAI's latest model, Astra. While some industry leaders celebrate this milestone, others, including OpenAI's own CEO, remain skeptical of the term's definition and significance.
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The debate over the arrival of AGI highlights the rapid pace of AI development and the lack of consensus on how to define and measure human-level machine intelligence.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has congratulated OpenAI following the debut of its latest frontier model, Astra, and declared that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has finally emerged. Taking to social media platform X, he celebrated ChatGPT-maker’s rapid technological progression while highlighting that Astra was developed using Nvidia’s advanced hardware. The term AGI refers to automated systems capable of equaling or exceeding human cognitive abilities across various domains. Huang also hinted that far more processing power is on the horizon, noting that 400,000 additional graphics processing units will soon go live to support continued AI model training and execution.“From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived,” Huang posted on X, adding, “Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next.”OpenAI unveils Astra: ‘Welcome to the AGI Era’OpenAI formally introduced Astra last week, promoting the architecture as its most capable and aligned system to date.
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