27 August 2026
OpenAI leadership says internal AGI system coming by year end
First reported
The Neuron and The Rundown AI ran this on , all on the same day.
- Sam Altman told TIME magazine OpenAI will have an internal system by year end that meets his personal definition of AGI, artificial general intelligence or human-level AI.
- Mark Chen, OpenAI's chief research officer, stated the company is 80 percent of the way toward achieving AGI.
- OpenAI has not formally defined what AGI means, making the timeline difficult to verify against any objective standard.
Where they differ
The Neuronreported Altman's statement plainly.
The Rundown AIadded context that OpenAI's definition of AGI remains contested and undefined, which matters for evaluating whether the deadline is meaningful.
What each one reported
Sam Altman told TIME that while OpenAI has not yet reached AGI, the company expects an internal system by year's end that he would personally call AGI, while the chief research officer stated the company is at 80 percent of the way there.
Sam Altman stated in a TIME profile that a model meeting his definition of artificial general intelligence will exist inside OpenAI by the end of the year, with research chief Mark Chen claiming the lab is 80% of the way there. The newsletter notes this represents OpenAI's public commitment to an AGI timeline, though the term remains undefined and contested.