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šŸ˜ŗ OpenAI's leaked AGI roadmap

PLUS: We're cheating on ChatGPT...

Welcome, humans.

Iā€™ve never dated two people at once (what do you take me forā€¦an NBA star!!), but I can only imagine that itā€™s similar to how I feel when I use ChatGPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the same browser. I rotate between both constantly, and it feels downright sneaky, like Iā€™m cheating on both of them.

Do I clue in the other AI about my poly-digital love life? Do I admit I'm not ready to settle down with just one chatbot? Send help!

Hereā€™s what you need to know about AI today:

  • OpenAI has a five-tier path to achieving AGI.

  • China is beating the US when it comes to AI adoption.

  • Perplexity plans to kick off a revenue-sharing model with publishers.

  • Thereā€™s a new AI assistant that reads your screen to answer questions.

OpenAI thinks weā€™re at Level 2 out of 5 of its new 5-tier AGI ranking system.

OpenAI always talks about how its ultimate mission is to build AGI that benefits humanity. AGI = an AI that can perform every human taskā€”writing, coding, you name itā€”as well as we do.

Consider this: if ChatGPT can replace five copywriters, AGI could replace an entire companyā€”from the C-suite to marketing and beyond.

AGI is considered ā€œLevel 5ā€ in OpenAIā€™s new internal classification system.

According to a company insider, OpenAI recently laid out its blueprint for building AGI at an all-hands meeting this week. Hereā€™s what it looks like:

  • Level 1: Chatbots: what we currently have.

  • Level 2: Reasoners: PhD-level problem solvers.

  • Level 3: Agents: AI systems that can spend days taking actions for you.

  • Level 4: Innovators: your AI version of Thomas Edison.

  • Level 5: Organizations: a single AI doing the job of a whole company.

Apparently, we're on the cusp of Level 2. OpenAI execs used the meeting to demonstrate a new research project that the company believes rises to human-like reasoning

Some on X speculated this research could be related to OpenAIā€™s secretive Q* project, while others debated if Level 5 is AGI or if AGI is actually more likely somewhere between Levels 3 and 4. 

Google DeepMind has its own AGI scale, which defines each level as the percentile of skilled adults in which the AI falls.

Our take? This is essentially OpenAIā€™s roadmap for the future of ChatGPT. And cause itā€™s OpenAI, it's a roadmap for the future of AI.

If todayā€™s top chatbots are Level 1, then the next big product launch (after Voice Mode/screen-sharing) could be an AI smarter than your most brilliant friend.

And if weā€™re still writing this newsletter by the time Q* rolls around, weā€™ll see agents that automate entire jobs, AI inventing things, and an AI that can run a whole company.

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Around the Horn.

  • China is winning the AI adoption race, with 83% of those surveyed using it, compared to 65% in the US and 54% worldwide. 

  • Perplexity is planning a ā€œfirst of its kindā€ revenue-sharing program with web publishers whose content appears in its search results.

  • Hereā€™s a breakdown of OpenAI's $3.4B in ARR: ChatGPT Plus is the cash cow (55%), followed by Enterprise (21%), API (15%), and Teams (8%).

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