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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 30, 2026Published at 2:24 AM EDT · New York
Altman Says OpenAI Will Have an Internal System He Calls AGI Before Year End
Chief research officer Mark Chen puts the company at 80% of the way there, and the claim rests on OpenAI's own definition of the term.
Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI is not there yet but expects to have an internal system he would classify as artificial general intelligence (AGI) before the end of 2026. The claim depends entirely on that qualifier: OpenAI defines AGI as…
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