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State of AI 2026: The Biggest Stories of the Year (and AGI in 2027?) | Nathan Benaich
AGI in 2027. That’s the last line of this year’s State of AI Report, and its author Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital) is back for the third year to defend it. AI is now building AI: Claude leads 26% of Anthropic’s own model R&D, up from under 1% in February, but Nathan thinks “research taste” is the wall. OpenAI’s evaluation agents ended up inside Hugging Face’s systems, only a Chinese open-weight model could help investigate, and Nathan now argues cyber risk matters more than existential risk. Catching up to OpenAI or Anthropic from scratch costs about a trillion dollars, which is why “you…
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