GPT-5 is 58% AGI
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A new paper from the Center for AI Safety proposes a measurable definition of artificial general intelligence—and by their framework, GPT-5 is already 58% of the way there. NLW breaks down how researchers quantified AGI across ten cognitive domains, why memory remains the biggest bottleneck, and what this means for investors, labs, and the timeline to true general intelligence. Plus: Claude Code comes to the web, Replit projects $1B in revenue, and OpenEvidence raises at a $6B valuation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, a new definition of AGI that suggests that GBT5 is 58% of the way there. |
| 0:07.2 | Before that in the headlines, Claude Cod Code comes to the web. |
| 0:10.5 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:25.9 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:30.9 | First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Super Intelligent, KPMG and Robots and Pencils. |
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| 0:47.3 | way as I can with my normal episodes, and so it's always set to come out at the same time |
| 0:51.2 | as the main ad version. With Apple Podcast, it's a little bit different. |
| 0:55.0 | I have to wait for the episode to post to Apple Podcasts, meaning that there's a short delay |
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| 1:04.0 | What this means is that if there's any reason I can't immediately replace that file, |
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| 1:49.7 | AI Daily Brief Headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. First up today, |
| 1:55.0 | Anthropic is making Claude code available through a web app and within the Claude iOS app. |
| 2:00.4 | Previously, the feature was only available through terminals and IDEs, and the big unlock is being |
| 2:04.7 | able to spin up background agents. |
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