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Kevin Okemwa

OpenAI started as a "countervailing force" to Google — did Elon Musk and Sam Altman torpedo DeepMind's plans to dictate AGI?

The logo of 'OpenAI' is displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

AGI (or artificial general intelligence) is becoming a buzzword that tech leaders blurt out when describing what the endgame in the AI race could look like. At this point, there seems to be a different meaning for the term emerging every day.

Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to identifying who will eventually emerge as the winner of the ever-competitive race, though AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy narrowed down the answer to the company with enough money to buy enough computing power to build AGI, eliminating the illusion of time as a limitation.

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