OpenAI could be close to revealing a big step forward in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Axios reports. They’re talking about Ph.D.-level super-agents, AI that can do complex tasks like humans.

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has a meeting planned with U.S. government officials on Jan. 30 to discuss this. The New York Times was the first to report about the meeting last week.

Mark Zuckerberg recently said that by 2025, AI could write code like software engineers do. These super-agents could turn AI from just a helpful tool into something that truly competes with human workers.

AI companies are making faster progress than expected. OpenAI even released an “Economic Blueprint” saying AI could help reindustrialize America with the right support.

However, the AI world often hypes up small advances, so it’s hard to know what’s really new.

Super-agents are AI systems that can handle complex, real-world problems. They don’t just follow one command; they work towards goals. For example, they could build new software, analyze investments, or plan events. These AI tools get smarter every day and could impact health, science, and education by doing deep research.

As AI advances, it’s happening alongside big political changes with Trump’s administration. Congress might push for laws to boost AI job growth, but some worry AI will kill jobs, especially for new workers. This could lead to a lot of debate about AI’s role in our society.

Is ASI imminent?

Some insiders are excited but also worried about how fast AI is advancing. Jake Sullivan, a former White House advisor, thinks the next few years will decide if AI leads to good or bad outcomes, Axios reports.

Other AI insiders are bullish. David Shapiro thinks that OpenAI has “solved intelligence for good.”

“What I mean by that,” he says, is ‘the AI can generalize beyond its training distribution.’ Which, in plain terms, means it can think outside its own box and solve problems like a human can; by generalizing from first principles and thinking beyond the horizon of its training data.”

In a recent video, Shapiro argues that Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is imminent.

EDITED: Sam Altman just posted: “we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it. we have some very cool stuff for you but pls chill and cut your expectations 100x!”

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