OpenAI Says “AGI” Is Here — What Does That Actually Mean?

It's not changing the world economically the way that these folks said. I think if we really did have EGI, here are some things you might expect. You might expect wages to drop. You might expect unemployment to go up. You might expect that we could rely on agents. Like, you know, one guy proposed on Twitter today

the pizza test. You should be able to ask any AI system, order me a pizza, and it should figure out, you know, where you live, how to order the pizza, and who's open and what. And like, that's not that hard. But, you know, anybody who's played around with these agents know you can't really trust that.

Welcome to Profy Markets. I'm Ed Ellson. It is September 8th. Let's check in on yesterday's market vitals. US markets were closed for Labor Day, but stock futures fell as the US and Iran escalated their attacks. Brent crude climbed towards $98 per barrel. Copper hit an all-time high on the prospect that Trump will expand his

tariffs on the metal. And finally, the Japanese yen rose to its highest level since February as the dollar fell. Okay, what else is happening? OpenAI's newest and most powerful model is officially here. GPT6 Astra released on Friday. Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia GPUs at the Stargate data center in Texas. That makes it the

largest training run in OpenAI's history, and it costs 2 and a half times the cost of OpenAI's previous model. Astro represents a large advance in capabilities for OpenAI. And across the AI industry, leaders have been celebrating. In response to the model, Nvidia CEO Jensen Hang said that artificial general intelligence or AGI has quote arrived. Meanwhile, OpenAI's