Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, recently stated on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he believes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) “was achieved roughly three months ago.” On April 5, he posted on X saying, “I declare: AGI is here, though its distribution remains uneven.” Andreessen cited the latest cutting-edge models—such as GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3.0, and Grok 4.3—as evidence that this threshold has been crossed; his criteria being that these systems currently outperform 99% of human experts across 99% of topics, while possessing both reasoning capabilities (fluid intelligence) and extensive knowledge reserves (crystallized intelligence). He also pointed out that as early as December 2022, when ChatGPT was released, the Turing Test had already been “pierced like tissue paper,” yet the industry largely failed to recognize the significance of that historic moment.
Andreessen’s claims immediately sparked widespread debate: Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, argued that current systems still fall short due to inconsistencies and exploitable weaknesses; Fei-Fei Li, pioneer of AI research, noted there is no unified definition of AGI within the industry, describing it more as a marketing buzzword; multiple AI policy researchers outright dismissed the assertions as lacking scientific basis. Meanwhile, X user @scaling01 claimed in related discussions that there exists an internal Anthropic project codenamed “Mythos,” which “isn’t quite AGI yet, but essentially functions as a programming-oriented AGI”—this claim stems purely from community speculation and has received no official confirmation from Anthropic. Both Dario Amodei, Vice President of Research at OpenAI, and the CEO of Anthropic have previously hinted that AGI might arrive between 2026 and 2027; consequently, this ongoing ‘AGI definition war’ continues to gain momentum.