Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang declared that the era of artificial general intelligence (AGI) has arrived after OpenAI released its latest model.
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled the GPT-6 Astra model, which the company said features major improvements in computer use, coding, scientific research and professional work.
Astra began rolling out to OpenAI’s enterprise customers with Daybreak access with the initial announcement. The company is also rolling it out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise, as well as through the OpenAI API and Amazon Web Services.
Huang wrote a post on X congratulating OpenAI on the breakthrough, saying that it marks the outset of the AGI era.
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“GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next,” Huang said in his post on X.
AGI lacks a common definition across the tech sector, though it generally refers to an AI system that has human-level cognitive abilities for learning and reasoning, and is able to learn new skills and capabilities without being retrained.
OpenAI defines AGI as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
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Huang and Nvidia have defined AGI as an AI system that’s able to pass professional certifications and standardized tests across a range of professional fields with scores in the top tier.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman told reporters before Astra’s launch that the new model is a turning point in the pursuit of AGI, saying that “I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.”
The company said that Astra can carry out “tedious” computer-based tasks, such as filling out online forms, updating customer records, organizing calendars and conducting research.
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OpenAI added that Astra can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations, while it also called it the “best model for software engineering to date” and touted its cybersecurity capabilities.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that one of the model’s capabilities that impressed him the most was Astra’s ability to identify problems that users hadn’t considered.
“Not only could it excel at doing a bunch of research about, you know, a complex supply chain for chips that we’re trying to produce,” Altman said. “But parts of that task that I didn’t ask it for, it can come back and say, ‘You didn’t think to ask me about this other part of the supply chain.'”
FOX Business’ Sophia Compton and Reuters contributed to this report.
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