Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made an extraordinary declaration Sunday following the release of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra:
“AGI has arrived.”
There is no question that Astra represents another remarkable advance. OpenAI reports a 99.9% score on one configuration of ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark designed to test whether an AI can adapt to unfamiliar problems rather than simply reproduce what it has learned.
But extraordinary performance and artificial general intelligence are not necessarily the same thing.
There is no universally accepted test for AGI—or even universal agreement on precisely where the boundary lies. And ARC Prize reports that Astra scored 62.7% under its standardized, provider-neutral evaluation, illustrating how much the measurement itself can matter.
So has AGI arrived?
I don't think we can say that yet.
But something almost as remarkable has happened: AI has advanced far enough that serious people can now plausibly argue that AGI has arrived.
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