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Opus 4.8 Drops, Demis Hassabis Predicts AGI, and the $220B Foundation | MOONSHOTS

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Anthropic's Opus 4.8 beats GPT-5.5 at parallel processing, reclaiming the coding crown. OpenAI now controls a $220 billion nonprofit fund focused on wealth redistribution and AI dividends. DeepMind's Demis Hassabis predicts AGI by 2029, though the speaker argues AGI has existed since 2020.

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Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8, reclaimed the coding crown from GPT-5.5. This feels like it's significantly better at managing many, many parallel threads. I did have some trouble with the, um— OpenAI now has the largest nonprofit philanthropic war chest in the world. They're funding research on public wealth funds, worker ownership models, and AI dividends. The mandate and the mission of all that money is global calm, peace, prosperity. It matters tremendously to Sam. This is a really bizarre story in my mind because Demis Hassabis just tightened up his timeline for AGI, agreeing with Ray Kurzweil for 2029. Right now, they're certainly not winning. Gemini is not winning the race. I think we've arguably had some form of artificial general intelligence since 2020. We're spending a lot of time on AGI and whether we achieve it or not. And I think it's just noise. I will make a prediction here.