# Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares AGI has arrived, but markets remain skeptical

> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used a public appearance to declare that artificial general intelligence has effectively arrived, pointing to OpenAI's Astra model, which he said was trained on 100,000 of Nvidia's Grace Blackwell chips. It is the kind of claim that would have been unthinkable to say out loud a few years ago, and coming from the man selling the shovels, it doubles as the ultimate sales pitch. The market, however, did not swoon, and Nvidia stock actually slipped around 2 percent on the first trading day after the remarks. Researchers were quick to push back, noting that a single impressive model, however capable, is not the same as the broad, flexible cognition the term AGI is supposed to describe. Skeptics also pointed to bond markets, since real Treasury yields did not jump, which is not what you would expect if investors truly believed a productivity revolution had landed. The gap between Huang's rhetoric and the market's shrug is the real story here, a reminder that declaring AGI is easy while proving it is not.

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## Wortins' read

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used a public appearance to declare that artificial general intelligence has effectively arrived, pointing to OpenAI's Astra model, which he said was trained on 100,000 of Nvidia's Grace Blackwell chips. It is the kind of claim that would have been unthinkable to say out loud a few years ago, and coming from the man selling the shovels, it doubles as the ultimate sales pitch. The market, however, did not swoon, and Nvidia stock actually slipped around 2 percent on the first trading day after the remarks. Researchers were quick to push back, noting that a single impressive model, however capable, is not the same as the broad, flexible cognition the term AGI is supposed to describe. Skeptics also pointed to bond markets, since real Treasury yields did not jump, which is not what you would expect if investors truly believed a productivity revolution had landed. The gap between Huang's rhetoric and the market's shrug is the real story here, a reminder that declaring AGI is easy while proving it is not.

## Source

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