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The Quiet Roar Of Artificial General Intelligence

Pay Attention To The Inevitable Progression Of AGI

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Aug 19, 2025

Summary

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is no longer a sci-fi abstraction. Breakneck technical progress, plummeting costs, and product breakthroughs make it inevitable. The big questions are: How capable will it become? How fast will it advance from where we are today with agentic systems? And how much disruption will it create? This report defines AGI in pragmatic terms, maps its evolution across four stages, highlights three critical inflection points, and offers a prescriptive roadmap to ready your workforce, governance, and architecture for what’s next.

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