OpenAI Is Confident of Achieving Internal AGI by September 2026!
Oct 30th | Superintelligence Newsletter
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The AI frontier accelerates as OpenAI hints at internal AGI development by September 2026 amid its revamped partnership with Microsoft - raising urgent governance questions and setting a new industry pace.
Meanwhile, disruptive announcements - from xAIâs Grokipedia encyclopedia to Amazonâs major layoffs driven by AI-automation - highlight a transformative shift in how we generate knowledge and how we work.
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OpenAI & Microsoft AGI-Verification Deal - A revamped partnership in which OpenAI and Microsoft now require an independent expert panel to verify any claim of achieving AGI, reflecting growing governance concerns.
xAIâs Grokipedia vs Wikipedia - xAI, led by Elon Musk, has launched Grokipedia as a new AI-driven encyclopedia challenging Wikipedia, but immediately faces scrutiny over content bias and sourcing.
Amazon Layoffs Amid AI Automation Drive - Amazon is cutting thousands of corporate roles as it accelerates its AI-andâautomation strategy, underscoring the rising impact of generative AI on the future of work.
MiniMax M2 â A compact yet powerful agent-and-coding model from MiniMax that offers top-tier developer performance at just ~8 % of the usual cost.
Grokipedia â Launched by xAI and led by Elon Musk, this AI-powered online encyclopedia aims to rival Wikipedia by generating articles entirely through an LLM and positioning itself as a âtruth-seekingâ knowledge base.
Seed3D 1.0 â From the ByteDance Seed team: a diffusion-transformer model that converts a single RGB image into a fully simulation-ready 3D asset (mesh + PBR textures) for robotics, gaming & XR.
DeepSeekâOCR: Contexts Optical Compression â This paper presents an optical-compression pipeline that converts up to ~1000 text tokens into ~100 vision tokens, achieving ~97% OCR accuracy at 10Ă compression and ~60% at 20Ă.
Continual Learning via Sparse Memory Finetuning â This study shows that by updating only a few âmemory slotsâ rather than full model parameters, models retain old knowledge far better: ~11% drop vs ~89% for full fine-tuning.
When Models Manipulate Manifolds: The Geometry of a Counting Task â Researchers interrogate how a model performing line-break prediction in text encodes a counting task via geometric manifolds analogous to biological place/boundary cell representations.
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UNESCO launched a regional survey on gender and AI fairness in the Caribbean, while IBM unveiled a defense-specific AI model built under ISO 42001 governance, reinforcing ethical and responsible AI deployment across sensitive domains. Meanwhile, Amazon triggered debate on automation ethics after announcing fresh layoffs of about 30K Employees tied to its AI-driven restructuring.
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Excellent analysis! The AGI-verification deal is so important.