Jensen Huang declares 'AGI has arrived' for OpenAI's Astra — SkimNews
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- Jensen Huang posted on X Sunday congratulating OpenAI on Astra's release, declaring 'AGI has arrived,' tracing the path 'from ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years,' and adding '400K GPUs coming online next'
- OpenAI unveiled Astra on Thursday as 'the world's most intelligent and aligned model,' with President Greg Brockman saying 'Welcome to the AGI era' and predicting people will look back and say AGI was created 'about this time'
- Gary Marcus countered that Huang's declaration came with 'no evidence and no definitions,' calling it 'an effort at a takeover of a scientific question by corporate fiat,' and arguing Astra meets only one or two of his 10-point AGI benchmarks
- Sam Altman previously dismissed AGI as 'a very poorly defined term' and 'like an irrelevant marketing term' on the 'Sources' podcast
- Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue in August, more than double the year-ago period, with its data center business generating $89 billion
- Astra runs on Nvidia hardware; OpenAI called Nvidia 'the foundation of our infrastructure' in a March funding announcement, with 'the majority of our inference stack' running on Nvidia GPUs
Why it matters: Huang's endorsement gives OpenAI's AGI claim the most powerful possible validator — the chipmaker whose $89 billion data center business depends on the narrative that frontier models justify massive compute buildouts. But Marcus's critique and Altman's own dismissal of AGI as 'marketing' expose the term as unresolved, making 'AGI has arrived' a self-serving declaration rather than a scientific milestone.
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