Industry Abandons AGI As Central Goal

In recent months, leading AI companies and executives—including OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Salesforce—have publicly downplayed "AGI" as an end goal and reframed ambitions. New critical studies from Apple and the Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab argue that LLM scaling and chain-of-thought methods are unlikely to deliver AGI, prompting shifts in strategy, evaluation, and investment priorities across the industry.