Tech firms are building the foundations of what could - eventually - develop into artificial general intelligence. OpenAI and Meta are gearing up to launch new AI models, promising huge advances in reasoning and planning capabilities. "We are hard at work in figuring out how to get these models not just to talk, but actually to reason, to plan . . . to have memory," said Joelle Pineau, vice-president of AI research at Meta. Similarly, Brad Lightcap, chief operating officer at OpenAI, highlighted progress made towards solving "hard problems" such as reasoning, indicating a shift in the AI landscape. "We're going to start to see AI that can take on more complex tasks in a more sophisticated way," Lightcap told the Financial Times in an interview.
