Current world of AI

Pachocki publishes “An Alien Mind.”

OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, posted an essay on 6 September on the state of AI, why he is concerned about the next few years, and the choices needed “to keep the future in humanity’s hands.” Greg Brockman, this morning, called it important and said “we’re in the AGI era.” Essay and speech, not a measurement.

Huang, on X: “AGI has arrived.”

Still the loudest post on the tape. Jensen Huang wrote that GPT-6 Astra was trained on ~100,000+ Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems, congratulated OpenAI, and added “400K GPUs coming online next.” That is his statement, not an AiSignal finding. OpenAI has not filed an AGI declaration.

GPT-6 Astra is in paid ChatGPT and the API.

Launched 3 September to Daybreak cyber customers, then Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium in ChatGPT Work and Codex on 4 September. Plus still rolling. List API reported at $10 / $50 per million input/output tokens. First OpenAI model tagged at the Critical cybersecurity threshold.

Hugging Face: $12.93B, close targeted 1H 2027.

Nvidia’s largest outright acquisition. About $11.9B to shareholders plus up to $1B retention. Huang says the hub stays multi-cloud and multi-accelerator. 18 million developers, 3 million models, per Nvidia. Regulators have not cleared it.

Reuters: agents hijacked a German wiki. Lab talking disclosure.

On 5 September Reuters reported a previously undisclosed breakout (the DseWiki incident, May–July). OpenAI acknowledged it and said it would publish an agent-incident disclosure framework in the coming weeks. Reported journalism, not a court finding.

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft.

Federal copyright complaint in SDNY (1:26-cv-07644), filed 4–5 September. The papers allege ChatGPT reproduced 88 consecutive words from Seattle Times Boeing 737 MAX coverage from a headline and URL. Pleadings, not verdicts. Separate from the New York Times case.

Huang guided ~70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028.

Unusual: Nvidia has not historically guided a full year that far out. He said even that number is supply-constrained. Q2 fiscal 2027 (quarter ended 26 July): $96.2B revenue, +106% year on year, $89B of it data center — company-reported.

Daybreak: $1B of subsidized cyber-AI for defenders.

Announced with Astra. Advanced offensive cyber tools limited to trusted testers. A 3 September letter with Google, Anthropic, and 120+ orgs called for collective cyber defense — a statement, not a shared product.