Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tipped his chapeau to OpenAI connected Sunday.

The chipmaking mogul took to X to congratulate OpenAI's squad connected the merchandise of the company's newest and astir powerful model, Astra, and made the notable connection that "AGI has arrived," a nebulous term that typically describes AI models that lucifer aliases surpass quality intelligence.

He besides pointed retired that Astra was trained connected Nvidia's chips.

"From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra successful 4 years," Huang said successful a station connected X. "AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team."

OpenAI unveiled Astra connected Thursday. The ChatGPT shaper called it the world's "most intelligent and aligned model," and said it is tin of performing "the astir demanding master activity pinch unmatched speed, accuracy, and judgment."

Greg Brockman, the company's president, said connected a telephone pinch reporters connected Thursday: "Welcome to the AGI era."

AGI stands for artificial wide intelligence, a fuzzy conception that nevertheless has go a halfway extremity for starring frontier AI labs.

OpenAI defines it arsenic "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans astatine astir economically valuable work." The institution sounded Astra arsenic a awesome investigation breakthrough and a displacement successful what's imaginable to delegate to AI. It's rolling retired to customers this week.

On the Thursday call, Brockman said that successful the future, he thinks group will look backmost and deliberation AGI was created "about this time, and I deliberation it mightiness beryllium astir this model."

"For maine personally, I do deliberation we're there," he said.

Altman, for his part, told the "Sources" podcast successful a caller quality that AGI is, astatine best, "a very poorly defined term. I was going to opportunity it's for illustration an irrelevant trading term."

Frontier AI companies for illustration OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google person grown increasingly reliant connected precocious chips manufactured by Nvidia. In a backing announcement successful March, OpenAI called Nvidia "the instauration of our infrastructure."

"Our training fleet and the mostly of our conclusion stack proceed to tally connected Nvidia GPUs," the institution said.

That request has translated into tremendous income for Nvidia. The institution reported $96.2 cardinal successful quarterly gross successful August, much than double the magnitude reported successful the aforesaid play a twelvemonth earlier. Its information halfway business, which includes its AI chips, generated $89 cardinal successful revenue.

And successful his X station connected Sunday, Huang suggested there's plentifulness much computing powerfulness connected the way.

"400K GPUs coming online next," he said, referring to graphics processing units, the precocious chips utilized to train and tally AI models.