In May, OpenAI’s superintelligence safety team was disbanded and several senior personnel left due to the concern that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products,” including Jan Leike and the team’s co-lead Ilya Sutskever. The team’s work was absorbed by OpenAI’s other research efforts, according to Wired.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI knows how to build AGI — and is beginning to turn its aim to 'superintelligence.'

OpenAI’s newest, most performant model, announced in December, has passed the ARC-AGI test, purportedly outperforming most humans. Now Sam Altman says the company is looking to go far beyond that.