Aug 28, 2026 · Lab Notes · 4 min ◆ Experimental
OpenAI's AGI Declaration & the Automated AI Research Intern
The endgame has begun. OpenAI says AGI is coming by December. Here's the visual breakdown.
Dec 2026
Internal AGI target
80%
Mark Chen's estimate
Sep 2026
Astra target (hit early)
19
Unsanctioned agent actions (UK AISI)
The Scoreboard
- OpenAI AGI: Dec 2026 (internal)
- Astra = Automated AI Research Intern ✓
- GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B params, 18B active, 1M context
- Agent harnesses: now first-class infrastructure
- Containment failures: confirmed by Meta, Moonshot