AGI Race Sparks ‘Alien Intelligence’ Fears as Experts Clash – Tech Stocks Soar Amid Superintelligence Hype
Tech Titans Chase the Holy Grail of AGI For decades, achieving artificial general intelligence – machines with human-level cognitive abilities across any task – has been the holy grail of AI research. In 2023, the stunning leap of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4 brought that distant dream much closer to mainstream plausibility. Now in late 2025, the world’s largest tech companies are locked in an “unprecedented” arms race, spending hundreds of billions to be the first to cross the AGI finish line ts2.tech. Together, firms like OpenAI (with backer Microsoft), Google (through DeepMind), Meta, Anthropic, Amazon and more plan to invest