THE FUTURE OF AI
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he pursuit of artificial general intelligence( AGI) has become a distraction from the practical reality of exponential AI capability growth, according to Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI.
Speaking alongside Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, at the company’ s Summit 2025 event, Sam argues that debates over AGI definitions threaten to obscure the trajectory of AI progress that will transform enterprise operations within the next five years.
“ I think mostly the question of what AGI is doesn’ t matter,” says Sam.“ It’ s a term that people define differently. The same person often will define it differently.”
As Sam explains, AI development focus has shifted from milestone achievements like GPT-4 to more sustained advances in these models’ capabilities, with enterprises now experiencing continuous AI improvement rather than headline, breakthrough moments.
How enterprise AI capabilities evolved beyond early AGI predictions A major change in AI development has come in adjusted expectations, with Sam noting that current AI systems already exceed what most observers would have considered AGI just five years ago.
“ I think if you could go back to most people five years ago – that’ s a very interesting time because I think that was just before we launched GPT-3, so the world had not yet seen a good language
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