[Sam Altman: OpenAI Expects to Achieve AGI by the End of 2026] According to Forbes, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in an interview with TIME magazine that the company expects to achieve an internal AGI system by the end of 2026, as defined by their standards—an AI capable of matching or surpassing human performance in most economically valuable tasks. Chief Research Officer Mark Chen mentioned that the company has 'completed 80% of the journey,' while co-founder Greg Brockman believes that two years from now, people may look back on this period as the moment AGI was born. OpenAI's upcoming Astra model has already passed the internal automated AI research intern benchmark, demonstrating the ability to conduct experiments and complete tasks that previously required a human researcher a week to accomplish. Altman described Astra as 'the first model capable of inventing new things in a meaningful way.'