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A lab chief calls the agentic era a warm-up lap

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Demis Hassabis said he expects AGI around 2030, now sees 2029 as plausible, and considers 2026's agentic era a warm-up lap.

Reported metric: 2029-2030

Reporting date: 2026-05-28 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to May 28, 2026

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Google DeepMind

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A lab sketches two versions of 2028 turning on export controls

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Welcome to May 28, 2026

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A lab chief calls the agentic era a warm-up lap
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Reporting date: 2026-05-28
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-28-the-agentic-era-is-a-warm-up-lap
Claim: Demis Hassabis said he expects AGI around 2030, now sees 2029 as plausible, and considers 2026's agentic era a warm-up lap.
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- Welcome to May 28, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-28-2026
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