With o3 having reached AGI, OpenAI turns its sights toward superintelligence

OpenAI set out to build AGI from its founding in 2015, when the concept of AGI, as Altman put it to Bloomberg, was “nonmainstream.”

“We wanted to figure out how to build it and make it broadly beneficial,” he wrote in his blog post. “At the time, very few people cared, and if they did, it was mostly because they thought we had no chance of success.”

But the company recruited talent with the lure “just come build AGI,” and in April 2023 appeared to have at least made some strides toward it: Microsoft researchers said that ChatGPT had “sparks” of AGI. They demonstrated that “beyond its mastery of language” GPT-4 could solve “novel and difficult tasks” including math, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology, and more, without special prompting.