AXIOS January 19, 2025
Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei

Architects of the leading generative AI models are abuzz that a top company, possibly OpenAI, in coming weeks will announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes Ph.D.-level super-agents to do complex human tasks.

  • We’ve learned that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — who in September dubbed this “The Intelligence Age,” and is in Washington this weekend for the inauguration — has scheduled a closed-door briefing for U.S. government officials in Washington on Jan. 30.

Why it matters: The expected advancements help explain why Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and others have talked publicly about AI replacing mid-level software engineers and other human jobs this year.

“[P]robably in 2025,” Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan 10 days ago, “we at Meta, as well as the...

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