With o3 having reached AGI, OpenAI turns its sights toward superintelligence

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reinvigorated discussion of artificial general intelligence (AGI), boldly claiming that his company’s newest model has reached that milestone.

In an interview with Bloomberg, he noted that OpenAI’s o3, which was announced in December and is currently being safety tested, has passed the ARC-AGI challenge, the leading benchmark for AGI. Now, Altman said, the company is setting its sights on superintelligence, which is leaps and bounds beyond AGI, just as AGI is to AI. 

According to ARC-AGI, “OpenAI’s new o3 system — trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set — has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the Semi-Private Evaluation set at our stated public leaderboard $10k compute limit. A high-compute (172x) o3 configuration scored 87.5%.”