Hassabis tightened his AGI timeline to ~2030, possibly 2029.

In post-I/O interviews, Hassabis reaffirmed AGI by roughly 2030, now floating 2029, citing growing confidence the field found the right path. He pointed to "soft self-improvement" already underway as coding agents make engineers more productive, the same loop Anthropic measured. A tighter timeline from one of the field's more measured voices, framing today's coding agents as the leading edge of recursive gains. Take the date with salt, take the direction seriously.