I was also curious about this (it’s rather surprising news). This seems like tankie misinformation.

The only somewhat relevant source was this article in SCMP from Jan 17th where a Shanghai party official called from partial lifting of internet restrictions in some areas.

That being said, it doesn’t look like this went over well:

It is not clear when the post was put online but it was removed on Friday morning.

It’s like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.

While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It’s reasonable to be suspicious.

I get it. I just didn’t know that they are already using “beyond AGI” in their grifting copytext.

Nevertheless, like the funding-hungry CEO he is, Altman quickly turned the thread around to OpenAI promising jam tomorrow, with the execution of the firm’s roadmap, amazing next-gen AI models, and “bringing you all AGI and beyond.”

AGI and beyond?

I really hope this is the beginning of a massive correction on AI hype.