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Google DeepMind’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Koray Kavukcuoglu, has revealed how far the company has progressed in achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a recent interview with the Financial Times (FT), Kavukcuoglu noted that the company does not yet have a definitive method for this, as the industry still lacks a specific technical formula for creating AGI.
Despite the recent launch of Gemini 3, which has led competitors like OpenAI to prioritise internal improvements, Kavukcuoglu emphasised that AGI remains a research goal rather than a finished product. For the unaware, AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, is hypothetical AI with human-like abilities to understand, learn, and solve any task, unlike current AI specialised in single tasks.“I think one thing that is really, really important for me is we do not have... the recipe of how to build AGI [because it is still research],” he noted in an interview with the Financial Times (FT).The release of Gemini 3 in November 2025 prompted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to declare an internal “code red” to enhance ChatGPT’s capabilities. However, Altman has expressed a significant personal interest in the development of AGI. In a podcast from last month, Altman said, “AGI. Excited for that. All I am excited for. More than my kid, more excited for that. Probably that's the thing I am most excited for ever in life.”While Altman concentrates on the emergence of superintelligence, other prominent figures in the industry have also called for caution regarding the dangers associated with autonomous systems.
Mustafa Suleyman, the head of AI at Microsoft, has cautioned that human safety and control must come before the quest for raw power. “We can't build superintelligence just for superintelligence's sake. It's got to be for humanity's sake, for a future we actually want to live in. It's not going to be a better world if we lose control of it,” Suleyman has already warned.Kavukcuoglu maintains that Google’s path toward AGI will be guided by user feedback and its existing infrastructure.
He argued that the only way to build beneficial AGI is to integrate security and safety from the beginning while using signals from Google's billions of global users to understand where the technology is most needed.
Read Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu’s take on the company achieving AGI
In the FT interview, Kavukcuoglu said: “Obviously, we are trying to build AGI. That’s our mission. That’s our goal. But I think one thing that is really, really important for me is we do not have . . . the recipe of how to build AGI [because it is still research].
That’s why doing the right products, picking the right products, and understanding user signals is [what guides our] technological development.Because AGI is going to be something useful for the users. It has to be. That’s what we are trying to build. And the only way to do that is to get that signal from the users in a responsible way. That’s why, when we say we are trying to design our models from the ground up with security and safety in mind, we do that, but then we do that with our products as well.And Google has a huge and long and successful history of reaching billions of users. And we are relying on that to also show us where the users’ needs are, where the technology really needs to solve the problems for the users. And that’s the path towards AGI that we are trying to build.”
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