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Partner, Sequoia Capital · Jan 14, 2026 · Essay, 2026: This is AGI

An AI that can figure things out has some baseline knowledge (pre-training), the ability to reason over that knowledge (inference-time compute), and the ability to iterate its way to the answer (long-horizon agents).

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Sonya Huang, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Where
2026: This is AGI
Topics
AGI, Agents
Company
Sequoia Capital
Source
sequoiacap.com/article/2026-this-is-agi

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