Masa Son says AGI will be here even sooner than expected, but don’t get your hopes up
It’s only Tuesday but OpenAI has had a great week so far, seemingly making forgotten all the talk about DeepSeek. That’s the viral AI from … The post Masa Son says AGI will be here even sooner than expected, but don’t get your hopes up appeared first on BGR.
It's only Tuesday but OpenAI has had a great week so far, seemingly making forgotten all the talk about DeepSeek. That's the viral AI from China that challenged the best ChatGPT model last week, tanking the US stock market in the process.
Since Friday, OpenAI has made several announcements. First, ChatGPT o3-mini and o3-mini-high were released to all ChatGPT users. On Sunday, OpenAI unveiled the ChatGPT Deep Research model, which is available to ChatGPT Pro users. On Monday, OpenAI confirmed that it plans to make a piece of ChatGPT hardware to challenge the smartphone, something we all expected.
On Monday, OpenAI's finances became a hot topic. Sam Altman was in Japan to kickstart a local venture with local giant SoftBank. The "SB OpenAI Japan" joint venture will see SoftBank spend $3 billion on securing access to ChatGPT for all its subsidiaries.
Separately, SoftBank will invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI in the near future, which could make the Japanese giant the biggest investor in the ChatGPT maker. Remember that SoftBank is also a key partner on the already announced $500 Stargate AI infrastructure plan for OpenAI.
In this context, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he was wrong about AGI, or artificial general intelligence. This massive milestone in AI development is coming earlier than he thought. That suggests the next-gen ChatGPT upgrade might be closer than we thought, and it may very well be. But you probably shouldn't get too excited about experiencing AGI on your own just yet.
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