NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang said he believes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has already been achieved on an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, released on Monday

Fridman proposed defining AGI as an AI capable of building and running a billion-dollar tech company, asking whether that milestone could arrive within 5–20 years. Huang was direct: “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

Huang’s threshold doesn’t require permanence. In his view, an AI that builds a viral app, earns a billion dollars, and subsequently shuts down still qualifies, drawing a comparison to dot-com era companies that were short-lived but undeniably real.

“I couldn’t have predicted any of those companies at the time either,” he said, when asked what that breakthrough might look like.