Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Declares the AGI Era. Nvidia Buys the Rebellion's Flagship. Regulators Scramble.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is here and the company says we've entered the AGI era. Hours later, Nvidia acquired Hugging Face for $13B, betting on open models as the counterweight. The White House is reviewing everything.
Lavamgam AISep 4, 20268 min read read
The Big Idea
OpenAI just told the world we've entered the AGI era. Not "we're getting closer." Not "our benchmarks are looking good." The actual words, spoken by president Greg Brockman to a room of reporters: "Welcome to the AGI era."
That same day — the same actual day — Nvidia announced it was buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, the GitHub of AI, the beating heart of the open-source model ecosystem. And tucked into the fine print of the Astra launch was a detail that should keep you...
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