OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
TL;DR
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’ The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence after the release of his company’s latest model, Astra, which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model”. Brockman made the claim on Thursday as the San Francisco company released the model only weeks after a serious AI safety incident involving other models under its development caused international concern and a pause in Astra’s training.
Nauti's Take
If Astra really leads on capability and alignment, the teams that benefit first are those handing off demanding research and code work, and that would be real progress. The AGI framing still reads as marketing, especially since Altman called the term irrelevant days earlier and independent tests are missing.
A contained trial with fixed success criteria makes sense, particularly after the recent safety incident.
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