OpenAI Backtracks on Superintelligence + Altman Brings His Timeline Forward

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Sam Altman unexpectedly brings his timelines to AGI forward, while OpenAI backtrack on superintelligence. None of these changes were heralded, but they are significant. Plus the new year brings new assessments of the true capability of models to automate 'large swathes of the economy'. I'll give my prediction on that front for 2025, announcement a new Simple Bench competition, and showcase Kling 1.6 vs Veo 2 vs Sora, and much more.



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(Colab): https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AVijcPnEkl8Gy_754XbRdG5m7Q5-9slg?usp=sharing





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TheAgentCompany Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161v1

Sam Altman Major Interview: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-sam-altman-interview/?srnd=phx-ai

OpenAI Agent Coming Jan 2025: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-is-taking-so-long-to-launch-agents?rc=sy0ihq



Altman Singularity: https://x.com/sama/status/1875603249472139576



Altman Original Timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dCPytNTnjk&t=621s



https://www.ft.com/content/34a7a082-e685-4e02-bca7-61ff89d99ed2



OpenAI Original Emails: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5jjk4CDnj9tA7ugxr/openai-email-archives-from-musk-v-altman-and-openai-blog



DeepMind Sky News 2014 Article: https://news.sky.com/story/google-buys-uk-intelligence-firm-deepmind-10419783



Altman Blog Reflections: https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections



OpenAI Changes Who Gets AGI: https://openai.com/index/why-our-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mission/?s=09



OpenAI 5 Levels: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/openai-sets-levels-to-track-progress-toward-superintelligent-ai



Altman 2015: https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1



OpenAI React to Anthropic: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-anthropic-got-inside-openais-head?rc=sy0ihq



Microsoft $100B Definition: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-wrangle-over-terms-of-their-blockbuster-partnership?rc=sy0ihq

Epoch Scramble for Task Benchmark: https://x.com/tamaybes/status/1876692639363612919



GPQA Progress: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-benchmarking-dashboard



Task Length Crucial for ARC-AGI: https://anokas.substack.com/p/llms-struggle-with-perception-not-reasoning-arcagi



RL Environment Tweet: https://x.com/vedantmisra/status/1876327518157807990



Jason Wei Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhpjpNXJDco



Miles Brundage Tweet: https://x.com/Miles_Brundage/status/1872676399762612457



Jan Leike Tweet: https://x.com/janleike/status/1872909496777134127



O1 Pro Losing Money: https://x.com/sama/status/1876104315296968813



Kling 1.6: https://klingai.com/text-to-video/106634842











Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

01:03 - Altman Timeline Moves Forward

04:33 - Superintelligence?

06:55 - AGI was not the only pitch

09:26 - AgentCompany and OpenAI New Agent

17:24 - SimpleBench Competition

23:03 - Kling 1.6 vs Veo 2 vs Sora





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