😺 Why we don't talk about AGI anymore...

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Why everyone’s talking superintelligence (and what happens when it happens).
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Microsoft to cut 4% of workforce as it doubled down on AI.
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The Superintelligence Rush Is Here. This Is What Comes Next.

AGI? As in, artificial “general” intelligence? That's so 2024.

The AI industry just stopped pretending AGI is “someday” off in the future. Now, everyone's racing to build artificial “superintelligence” by 2027.

Just look at the marketing language:

Microsoft just claimed it's on the path to “medical superintelligence.” Meta launched “Meta Superintelligence Labs” with Zuck's goal of “personal superintelligence for everyone.”

Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says we're already in a “gentle singularity”, which is basically a reference to superintelligence. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei predicts a “country of geniuses in a data center” by 2026-2027. Superintelligence by another name, no?

So what gives? Did we hit AGI and nobody told us? Where was the headline, fancy blog post, and podcast gauntlet to confirm it? Or is there actually something else going on entirely?

It’s like the Turing test all over again. First, no one can hit it. Then, it’s up for debate. Then, the debate just sorta… moved on?

First, the Race (Now - 2027): Clearly, whatever is happening right now is either…

The science is actually showing superintelligence is likely.
AGI has been achieved behind closed doors and they just haven’t released it yet.
No one can agree, and therefore never will agree, on what AGI looks like (rebrand!)
Superintelligence is just a stickier (and therefore cooler) idea.

*There’s also the theory that “ASI” is actually just a guy named Soham who works at 3-4 startups at one time (AGI = “A Genius Indian”, ASI = “A Soham Indian” lol).

Mark Zuckerberg proved Meta it is super serious about the idea of superintelligence by spending just shy of $15B on ScaleAI (a company central to training new AI), and by hiring 8 (and counting) top researchers from OpenAI, including Trapit Bansal (co-creator of the o1 reasoning model), Shengjia Zhao (co-creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4), and Shuchao Bi (co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode).

OpenAI, naturally, did not like this. Chief Research Officer Mark Chen sent an urgent internal memo that said, “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something.” SamA called the move “not the craziest thing that would happen in OpenAI history” and said “missionaries will beat mercenaries.” And of course, OpenAI’s reassessing their researchers comp…

Put another way: we’re in the lawless, cutthroat season of the AI race, where companies believe they're approaching a winner-take-all moment and are willing to go all in to get there.

So what happens if any of these cutthroats actually achieve superintelligence?

Vinod Khosla, an extremely prescient and legendary tech investor, offered this vision in a new interview with Jack Altman (keep in mind, Vinod is an investor in OpenAI, but still).

Vinod Khosla | Predicting the Future

2025-2030: The AI Intern Era. Those superintelligent systems become your coworkers. Every professional gets AI assistants smarter than Stanford grads. AI handles 80% of work in 80% of all jobs.
The 2030s: Corporate Extinction Event. Fortune 500 companies die faster than ever. Someone builds a billion-dollar company with 10 employees. The superintelligent “interns” surpass their human bosses.
2040+: Work Becomes Optional. You work because you want to, not because you need rent money. Humanoid robots handle physical labor. All expertise—medical, legal, educational—becomes free.

In sum, Khosla's 80% sure the real show ends with humanity never needing to work again.

His biggest fear? Not rogue AI. It's China using “good AI” (free healthcare, education) to export its politics globally. But TBH, when you hear VCs talk about AI’s benefits, they sound preeeetty communist themselves with all their chat of cheap goods and no jobs. Sam Lessin had a good meme where he said “AI = communist, crypto = capitalist.”

As for AGI… It’s clear that we are in a Jagged AGI stage, where we have AI systems that are superhuman in some areas but fail at seemingly simple tasks

OpenAI's o3 exemplifies this perfectly: it achieved 87.5% on ARC-AGI (exceeding the 85% “AGI threshold”), and can create complete business plans from single prompts, yet consistently fails simple riddles that humans solve easily.

Similarly, Google’s AlphaFold predicts protein structure “to within the width of an atom” but cannot (yet) apply this knowledge to other molecular problems.

This jagged nature explains why companies are simultaneously claiming AGI achievement while acknowledging significant limitations. Because we may already have AGI-level capabilities in many domains, superintelligence (where AI is smarter than humans) really is the next meaningful milestone.

Prompt Tip of the Day

Following Dylan Patel’s advice, if you’re trying to get insights into why such and such topic is trending on X.com, you can use Grok to give you real time insights (which is useful for tracking current events, even if you don’t use the platform X or the AI Grok).

Try something like this:

Why is [topic] trending on X right now [today’s date]? Search X for the latest discussions about [topic] to confirm. Only return X posts from today, [today’s date] related to this topic please.

Sometimes Grok is hit or miss, so I’d try this with Grok’s “DeepSearch” tool. It might not give you the exact X posts every time, but it can pull in additional context to help explain why a given topic might be trending given recent news events.

Now, if you try this prompt with ChatGPT using a thinking model like o3, it can also search X.com (when we tried this with Perplexity’s “social search” feature, it failed). So if you prefer ChatGPT over Grok, that’s another way to get insights into trending news.

Check out all of our Prompt Tips of the Day from June here.

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AI about to revamp your whole office suite:
1. Word: Genspark’s AI Docs turns your prompts into polished documents with automatic formatting and design (read more on X).
  1. Alts: Lex, which is a collaborative doc editor, Type, which is a solo writing app, or Sudowrite, which is for fiction-based writing.
2. Excel: Shortcut does your Excel work 10x faster than you can, with full file compatibility so you never need Excel again (here’s a demo).
  1. Alts: AI Sheets from HuggingFace, Quadratic which is more for an open dev audience, or Julius which is more of an AI data analyst tool.
3. Powerpoint: Chronicle turns your bullet points into presentation slides with drag-and-drop widgets, or there’s FlashDocs, which turns markdown into branded PowerPoint and Google Slides through their API (so you can make presentations with AI agents).
  1. Alts: Gamma, which is the #1 most popular presentation maker.
4. Outlook: Cora sorts your important emails and summarizes the rest into twice-daily briefs, or the recently acquired Superhuman, which makes you faster at processing email manually through lightning-fast keyboard shortcuts and a beautifully designed interface.
  1. Alts: Shortwave, a cheaper, popular alternative to Superhuman, or Thunderbird, which free and open-source.
5. OH, and what about Edge / Chrome? There’s Dia, a browse that builds an assistant into every web page so you can write, learn, and shop smarter without switching tab.
  1. Alts: None that good atm, but Perplexity’s Comet is on the way…here’s a good article on the AI browser wars.
Honorable mentions, that aren’t Office Suite replacements, but add-ons?
1. Quillbot, which gives you writing tools anywhere via browser extension.
2. Plus AI, which is a chrome extension for G docs.
3. Equals, which is more of a specialized revenue dashboard for sales teams.
4. Formula Bot, which is a one-line prompt to formula/chart tool.

Try any or all of them out and see which ones work best for you!

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Around the Horn.

Perplexity launched a $200 a month plan for power users called Perplexity Max, which will give you unlimited Labs (which let you create dashboards, spreadsheets, presentations, web apps, you name it) and early access to things like Comet.
Oracle’s cloud business is booming, based on its deals with ByteDance (it will likely be part of the TikTok deal U.S. President Trump is negotiating) and OpenAI, who just signed on to rent another 4.5 gigawatts of servers.
Microsoft confirmed plans to lay off 4% of its staff, which the company denies is part of an AI push, but some analysts have tied to their reduced margins from AI and $80B AI data center buildout.

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