Google DeepMind Just Launched the DeepMind Institute. How Close Are We to AGI?

The new platform launched days after two DeepMind safety researchers quit with public warnings, and its own chief AGI scientist still puts AGI at a coin flip by 2028.

Sep 17, 2026

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Google Deepmind Institute (DMI). Image by Jim Clyde Monge

The last couple of weeks have been full of AGI talk.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have all said in one way or another that we’re getting close. Then on September 3, OpenAI president Greg Brockman ended the GPT-6 Astra press briefing by declaring the start of the AGI era, and the phrase w…

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