The a16z Show · Monday, September 14, 2026
Greg Brockman, President of OpenAI, announced that humanity has entered the "AGI era," stating that recent advancements have reached a point where it's reasonable to call them Artificial General Intelligence. He highlighted that models have run coherently for extended periods to accomplish complex tasks.
“We're now in the AGI era. Astra has really hit something that I'm like, okay, I think this is pretty reasonable to call it AGI. We've seen it run coherently for 24 hours to go accomplish tasks that I think are quite amazing.”