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OpenAI President Greg Brockman stated that GPT reasoning models have 'line of sight' to AGI and represents a settled debate on whether text-based models can achieve general intelligence. The company is prioritizing this approach over multimodal world models like Sora, which Brockman views as 'a different branch of the tech tree.' The stance contradicts prominent AI researchers including Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis, who argue LLMs alone are insufficient for human-level intelligence.

AMI Labs, cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. The funding will support the company's effort to develop world models, marking a major commitment to foundational AI research outside of existing tech giants.