Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Claims AGI Has Been Achieved

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is stirring debate among advocates of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

NVIDIA CEO Huang's claim came after having been asked how long it would take AI to innovate, find customers, and manage a team to build a $1 billion company. (Photo: NVIDIA)

Speaking on Lex Fridman’s podcast, Huang said, “I think we’ve achieved AGI,” Francisco Velasquez reported for Yahoo Finance.

The claim came after Fridman asked how long it would take AI to innovate, find customers, and manage a team to build a $1 billion company.

When asked whether that milestone is five to 20 years away, Huang argued that, for a company of that scale, the era of AGI has already arrived. He said that having a billion-dollar company run by AI is “possible,” though such success may be short-lived.

“It is not out of the question that a Claude model was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden a few billion people used for 50 cents, and then it went out of business again shortly after,” Huang said.

“We saw a whole bunch of those types of companies during the internet era, and most of those websites were not anything more sophisticated than what OpenAI or Claude could generate today.”