DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has set an ambitious goal to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2029, making him the most aggressive CEO of a frontier lab to publicly forecast such a milestone.

In a recent interview, Hassabis revealed that only one or two significant technical breakthroughs are needed for DeepMind to reach AGI within the next three years. The company’s Co-Scientist multi-agent system is already operational across all 17 US Department of Energy national labs, providing valuable real-world deployment data that likely influenced the revised estimate.

The deployment of Co-Scientist raises important questions about the level of autonomy and human oversight in its operations. As the AI community watches with interest, the response of other frontier lab CEOs to this new deadline will be closely monitored, given the lack of comparable public forecasts.

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