Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Sunday that “AGI has arrived” and credited OpenAI’s newly released Astra model with reaching that milestone.
In a post on X, Huang wrote: “From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team.” He also said Astra was trained on Nvidia chips.
OpenAI unveiled Astra on Thursday and described it as the world’s “most intelligent and aligned model.” The company said the model can perform “the most demanding professional work with unmatched speed, accuracy, and judgment.”
OpenAI President Greg Brockman made a similar claim on a call with reporters on Thursday, saying: “Welcome to the AGI era.”
OpenAI defines AGI, or artificial general intelligence, as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” Astra is being rolled out to customers this week.
On the same call, Brockman said people may eventually look back and see AGI as having been created “about this time, and I think it might be about this model.” He added: “For me personally, I do think we’re there.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has taken a more cautious view of the term. In a recent appearance on the “Sources” podcast, Altman said AGI is “a very poorly defined term” and “an irrelevant marketing term.”
OpenAI and other frontier AI companies, including Meta, Anthropic and Google, rely heavily on Nvidia’s advanced chips. In a funding announcement in March, OpenAI called Nvidia “the foundation of our infrastructure.”
OpenAI said: “Our training fleet and the majority of our inference stack continue to run on Nvidia GPUs.”
Nvidia reported $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue in August, more than double the figure from a year earlier. Its data center business generated $89 billion in revenue.
Huang also said on X that more computing capacity is about to come online, writing: “400K GPUs coming online next.”
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