#AGI

The story of the companies, the investors, the research programmes, and the competitive dynamics that defined the AI industry from 2015 to 2025 — the people who believed they were building the most transformative and most dangerous technology in human history, and how that belief shaped what they built. The race to AGI, told from the inside.

The honest account of what AI systems — including the most capable systems currently deployed — genuinely cannot do, and what those limits reveal about the nature of intelligence, understanding, and the distance remaining to truly general AI. The most important counterweight to the enthusiasm that surrounds every wave of AI progress.

The full story of OpenAI — the founding mission, the commercial pivot, the release of ChatGPT, the board crisis of 2023, and what it means that the organisation most explicitly committed to humanity's benefit has become the world's most commercially successful AI company. The most consequential organisation in the history of artificial intelligence, and the complicated man who leads it.