AGI will arrive within a decade (by 2030) — driven primarily by massive raw compute deployment and neural-network scaling.

AGI will arrive within a decade (by 2030) — driven primarily by massive raw compute deployment and neural-network scaling. | xAI Colossus phase-2 scaling; Grok-6+ releases

Key catalyst: xAI Colossus phase-2 scaling; Grok-6+ releases

Watch events: xAI Colossus phase 2 deployment; Grok capability benchmarks; Tesla Dojo v2 disclosures.

xAI Colossus scale validates compute-first thesis; Tesla FSD v13/v14 and Optimus G3 demonstrate embodied AI progress.

Beneficiaries (13)

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  "context": "Musk's xAI Colossus (200K→1M H100-class GPUs) and Tesla Dojo represent his concrete bet on this thesis.",
  "to_year": 2030,
  "conv_cues": "within a decade; CEO-stated",
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      "label": "AI inference cost-per-token falls 90%+ from early 2025 baseline",
      "notes": "HIT — per-token prices have fallen 9x-900x/year per benchmark. Compute deflation supports the AGI-by-scaling thesis.",
      "source": "https://www.silicondata.com/blog/llm-cost-per-token — 90% collapse since early 2025",
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      "expected_date": "2026-07-02",
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      "label": "xAI Colossus phase-2 expansion confirmed for Grok 5+ training",
      "source": "https://www.revolutioninai.com/2026/04/xai-grok-5-agi-10-trillion-parameters-explained.html — 10T parameter Grok 5 plan",
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      "expected_date": "2026-12-15",
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      "label": "Frontier model crosses 10T parameters",
      "source": "Stanford AI Index, public lab disclosures",
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        "to": "2028-06-30",
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      "measurement_criterion": "OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, or Meta confirms training a model 10 trillion parameters or larger (active or total)"
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      "kind": "llm_pre_event",
      "label": "Leading AI lab publicly forecasts AGI within 24 months",
      "notes": "Amodei has already gestured at 2-3 year window in Senate testimony.",
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      "expected_date": "2027-10-17",
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      "kind": "quartile_checkpoint",
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