Overview

• Sam Altman declares that AI has passed the ‘event horizon’ and that the era of rapid AI takeoff has begun with models surpassing human performance in various tasks.
• 2025 introduced AI agents capable of genuine cognitive work, notably in generating computer code, indicating long-term shifts in software development workflows.
• OpenAI and Figure AI report breakthroughs enabling robots, such as Optimus, to learn complex tasks by transferring knowledge from internet videos of humans in action.
• Industry leaders expect AI systems capable of deriving novel insights by 2026 and robots performing real-world tasks by 2027.
• Observers predict that AI integration will substantially amplify individual productivity, enabling one person in 2030 to achieve outputs far beyond what was possible in 2020.