OpenAI fails to meet expectations with their '12 days of Shipmas' event as they released old features with minor updates or offered tools that competitors had already provided long before.
On the other hand, Google responded with a blog post containing demo videos hidden inside, trumping OpenAI for attention with the Gemini Advanced subscribers service.
OpenAI hinted at AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) in demo screens without explicitly mentioning it. The company ended the 12 days of Shipmas with the release of the o3 series of models, which is not AGI.
François Chollet, creator of Keras and a former Google researcher, built the only AI benchmark that measures progress toward general intelligence, the ARC-AGI benchmark. The O3 model scored almost 90% on the benchmark, exceeding human performance, but Chollet was dissatisfied.
Reports indicate that OpenAI may eliminate the AGI clause, currently in place to avoid negatively impacting Microsoft as they would lose access to OpenAI's models.
Sam Altman, the new CEO of OpenAI, said he expects that by the end of 2025, there will be systems that can do truly astonishing cognitive tasks, though the term 'AGI' has drifted from its original meaning.
OpenAI will continue to pursue the five levels of AI, with the ultimate level involving organizations that can carry out all the functions of a company autonomously without human participation.