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What actually is AGI? OpenAI and Microsoft once had an answer: it counts the moment you make $100 billion in profit. Nothing illustrates how little consensus this word has more clearly than that.
Elena Voss
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August 15, 2026
If you're planning to start following AGI-related news, the first thing worth knowing might be a little counterintuitive: there's currently no single definition of "AGI" that everyone agrees on. This might sound like a harmless terminology quibble, but in reality, this definitional disagreement has genuinely shaped the direction of multi-billion-dollar contracts, litigation battles between...