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The OpenAI CEO vaguely indicated that the AI firm could achieve the AGI benchmark in 2025.

Interestingly, Altman claimedthe benchmark’s societal impact would be “surprisingly little.

Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman.

“He further indicated thatAGI is achievable with current hardware.

“Building smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavor,” Jan stated.

Altman previously indicated thatAGI would whoosh by.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gestures as he addresses the audience as part of a session on AI.

People are like, man, the AGI moment came and went,” stated the CEO.

OpenAI is also slated to join the agentic arm’s race in January with its just-announced AI agent dubbedOperator.

Like most of the available AI agents, it will help control computers and perform tasks autonomously.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled "Transforming Business through AI" in Tokyo, Japan, on February 03, 2025.

Sam Altman further disclosed that OpenAI plans to dabble in the AI agent space more in 2025.

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