Sam Altman: OpenAI may reach AGI this year

What I learned during two weeks inside the company as it slowed frontier training and previewed its next major model, Astra.

Yesterday, TIME and I published a cover story called “Inside OpenAI’s Reboot.” I spent two weeks at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters and spoke with more than 20 executives, investors, customers, and rivals.

I went into the reporting process wanting to understand OpenAI’s last year, what allowed Anthropic to gain so much ground, and the internal mood a…