By Michael Kan
Publication Date: 2026-08-26 23:07:00
AI capable of matching or surpassing human intelligence remains a major goal for the tech industry. But to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, this artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a milestone that’s become irrelevant.
“For many tasks, we could say that we have already achieved AGI. I think all of those milestones…are kind of senseless at this point,” Huang said in an earnings call on Wednesday.
In contrast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Time in a new interview that his company will develop AGI internally by the end of this year. In OpenAI’s case, the company defines AGI as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
Huang didn’t define AGI on the earnings call. But he said it’s no longer people just prompting AI to execute tasks; more AI programs, called agents, can already run autonomously and improve “recursively,” by running the task over and over again.
“I think the most important thing that matters for the industry is that one, AI is doing productive and useful work,” he said. “Two, AI is generating profitable tokens. And three, if we had more compute, we could generate more profitable tokens, which results in more profit for all of the services. This is the exact phase where we are at.”
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