AGI is not coming!
Yannic Kilcher
Aug 9, 2025
The rapid, groundbreaking advancements in LLMs have plateaued, signaling a shift from foundational research to a 'Samsung Galaxy' era of incremental updates. OpenAI’s latest models prioritize synthetic data, reinforcement learning, and specific tool-calling capabilities over general world knowledge, suggesting that the industry is now focused on productizing existing technology rather than chasing AGI.
Key insight: We have reached a point where LLMs are being heavily optimized for specific tasks like coding and tool-calling via synthetic data, leading to models that excel at instruction following but possess significantly less general world knowledge than their predecessors.
