NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has declared that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has officially arrived, attributing the milestone to OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-6 Astra model. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on September 6, Huang congratulated OpenAI and noted that the journey from ChatGPT to o1 to Astra took just four years. He emphasized that Astra was trained using more than 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems, with an additional 400,000 GPUs expected to come online soon. Huang initially posted a figure of 300,000 systems before deleting and correcting it to the smaller number.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, describing it as its most capable and aligned model to date. The company claims Astra achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks such as FrontierMath Tier 4, ARC-AGI-3, and TerminalBench-4.0, and scored 100 percent on ExploitBench. The model is designed to handle a wide range of tasks, including computer use, software engineering, cybersecurity, and scientific research. OpenAI President Greg Brockman had already framed the launch as the beginning of the AGI era, and Huang’s endorsement added external weight to that claim.
However, the AGI label remains contentious. There is no universally accepted definition of AGI across the industry. OpenAI itself defines it as a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work. Many researchers argue that Astra still requires task-specific guidance in several areas and has not been independently verified to match human-level reasoning across all domains. Huang’s declaration has drawn pushback from AI researchers who view it as more of a marketing statement than a technical milestone, especially given NVIDIA’s financial stake in large-scale AI training runs. The debate over what truly constitutes AGI is likely to intensify as more labs release models with similar claims.
