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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

DeepMind just published the framework everyone's been arguing about in private: how do you actually measure AGI?

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DeepMind is attempting to operationalize AGI measurement through a public cognitive framework and Kaggle competition, establishing shared evaluation standards that could shape industry benchmarking and timeline claims.

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4 to know
  1. DeepMind published cognitive framework for AGI measurement

  2. Kaggle hackathon launched to build evaluations

  3. Public standardization of AGI progress metrics

  4. Published March 17, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: We’re introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations.
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