Jensen Huang once again declares that AGI has arrived but his GPT-6 celebration feels like hes just trying to sell next-gen Nvidia GPUs

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Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:56:22 +0000

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares that AGI has arrived but hes been wrong before, and Im done buying into the hype.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter GPT-6 Astra has arrived, and it's being called AGI This includes by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Huang's celebratory X post also promotes Nvidia's GPUs, saying we need to get 400K of them online Over the weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to social media to celebrate OpenAIs latest achievement AGI has arrived in the form of GPT-6 Astra. And of course it was developed using over 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

According to OpenAI, Astra represents a "significant step forward" for AI, with OpenAI's president Greg Brockman also saying "welcome to the AGI era" as Astra was debuted with the company promising that GPT-6 boasts incredible aptitude at tasks across software engineering, science, mathematics, and professional workflows. Its also said to be much better at agentic work, meaning you can delegate tasks to GPT-6 with less fear that the AI will misunderstand your intent as it works independently. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

We havent yet given GPT-6 a full shakedown the update is steadily rolling
out to subscribers but if OpenAIs claims live up to the hype, Astra could be quite the capable tool, and may actually live up to those early AGI claims, even if this isnt the first time Jensen Huang has heralded the arrival of AGI .

But what is AGI, and why does it matter if Astra is AGI or not? Well, as
Huang himself suggests, AGI matters because its a reason to quadruple the number of Nvidia GPUs OpenAI is using. You may like AGI may not matter, but Skynet's no threat either Googles AI chief warns of growing AGI risks GPT-6
is here, but what if we just said 'no thanks' to Astra, a model so powerful that we may never fully understand it (Image credit: OpenAI) What is AGI?
Lets address the elephant in the room. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, isnt a well-defined term, so judging if we have or havent achieved AGI is a bit like judging if a piece of art is a masterpiece or not.

Broadly speaking, AGI is an artificial system that can beat humans across any task that involves thinking or reasoning. Crucially, it should also be able
to adapt to new problems by applying what it has learnt in training. For example, an AGI could learn a new skill to overcome a challenge posed to it without being retrained or reprogrammed it just applies what it knows to evolve itself. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me
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Think J.A.R.V.I.S from Marvel. Its a very powerful assistant that helps Tony Stark across all fields, even how to deal with otherworldly threats like
Loki, without needing to be trained on each individual problem. Does AGI matter? Okay, but does it matter if its AGI or just a very, very smart AI?

For most of us, not really. An AI doesnt need to be very good at everything
to be a majorly useful tool. It doesnt matter if your AI doctor can
understand the deep complexities of the vast universe, it just needs to be able to diagnose your illness and suggest treatment. An AI lawyer doesnt need to be able to comprehend five-dimensional topology to defend you in court. What to read next Blaming AI for layoffs is too lazy according to Nvidia's
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It's not just me saying that; Jensen Huang recently admitted that AGI doesnt matter this was before his social media praise for OpenAI noting that the term is effectively meaningless.

However theres one important reason for achieving AGI, and its about reaching what comes after: ASI, or artificial superintelligence.

ASI would be an AI no human could ever hope to match, let alone beat. It
would be able to grapple and solve problems humans arent capable of even understanding. AGI is distinctly not ASI, but its ability to self-train and develop tools for itself suggests that an AGI will eventually construct ASI through a process called recursive self-improvement.

For Hitchhikers Guide the Galaxy fans, its like how the supercomputer Deep Thought couldnt find the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, but could build the computer which would be able to find the question. (Image credit: OpenAI) Perhaps more importantly, AGI is an investment buzzword, and theres more than a hint of that in Huangs
celebratory post. Because while he says Astra is the product of 100,000
Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72, he adds that if we want to see bigger and better improvements well need to bring 400,000 GPUs online next.

To do this OpenAI and Nvidia will need a heck of a lot of investment, and
will also need to build more data centers, just as communities across the US and rest of the world are pushing. back against their construction.

The arrival of AGI could represent the last opportunity for investors to make it big in AI, or any stock, before ASI takes over productivity. So they need to invest as much as they can now (or keep their investments in AI) before theyre left behind. For data centers, the big concern is they are pollution nightmares that merely take from a community with no promise theyll actually succeed long enough to give back. The advent of AGI would suggest that the AI hype has been justified all along the bubble wont burst, and local communities could finally reap the reward of accepting data centers.

Im not saying Huang or OpenAI are definitely misleading us, or even just
being hyperbolic. It's possible that Astra is in fact our first taste of AGI. Im just pointing out that companies and CEOs have a massive incentive to
claim that weve achieved AGI, even if they later make the same claim about
the next new model I wont be surprised if GPT-7 is later called 'the debut
of AGI'. (Image credit: Future) My point is that we wont really know if or when we achieved AGI until much later, when we can look back with hindsight and see when our AI models reached a turning point in their ability to
evolve.

In the moment, though, we will know if an AI is useful and can provide some genuine benefit to us. Well do that as a collective, as individuals and businesses not directly associated with OpenAI get their hands on the new model and determine whether or not it makes their life significantly easier. Try Astra out if you can, learn about the experience of others with the tech, and decide if you think itll be worth paying to be able to access it.

Dont get caught up in the hype, and dont worry about whether it's AGI or not. In time itll be very clear if it is and we wont need a social media post to convince us. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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