AI Industry Leaders Diverge On AGI Timelines

AI industry leaders publicly disagree about when artificial general intelligence will arrive: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and xAI's Elon Musk predict a system by the end of 2026, while Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis expects it to take another decade, and OpenAI's Sam Altman says AGI may already have 'gone whooshing by.' The article argues that AGI's fuzzy definition has enabled marketing-driven narratives, prompting firms to pivot toward productization, benchmark scrutiny, and practical deployments.