Doom Developer's Prediction: General Artificial Intelligence Will Arise Around 2030


Amazon is strategically scaling back its AI R&D, halting active development of most Nova models, including flagship models and video/image generators, shifting to maintenance for existing customers. This follows the disbanding of its AGI division and closure of related labs. Proprietary models struggle to compete, so Amazon pivots to infrastructure strength, building Amazon Athena—a unified platform to integrate third-party cutting-edge models fo....
During Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Pichai revealed Gemini 3.5 Pro's June launch delay for partner testing. Google launched its largest pretraining effort for next-gen Gemini 4 to lead in AGI. Recent releases include Gemini 3.6F.....
Zhipu founder Tang Jie announced the "Gaokao" plan, a two-year strategic investment in four core engines: long-context tasks, autonomous agents, fully self-training, and ultimate safety governance, aiming for next-gen AGI. Meanwhile, GLM-5.2 was released as open source under MIT license, supporting million-token context and leading in long-range tasks.....
MiniMax raised HK$16B, allocating 80% to AI infrastructure and model research. Founder Yan Junjie pledged to forgo salary until AGI and give 5% shares to motivate the team and open-source community.....
At Cannes, Hassabis dismissed bottleneck concerns, claiming DeepMind's AI team remains unmatched. He argued AGI requires more than scaling LLMs, focusing on integrating reasoning and planning, and stressed industry responsibility.....