François Chollet Says OpenAI Has 'Set Back Progress to AGI by Five to 10 Years'

The TechRadar item identified Chollet as a co-founder of the ARC Prize and carried the quotation without setting out the arguments behind the figure he cited. As published, it did not state the occasion or setting in which the comment was made, nor did it include any response from OpenAI.

The claim concerns artificial general intelligence, the term used for a hypothetical system capable of performing across the full range of tasks that humans can. Chollet's quoted assessment is directed not at the pace of narrower model development but specifically at progress toward that broader goal, and asserts a delay measured in years rather than months.

Because the published item consisted of the quotation itself, the specific practices, decisions or research directions Chollet had in mind are not identified in the material available. It also does not record whether OpenAI was asked for comment, or whether the company has disputed his characterization of its effect on the field.

The remaining content of the TechRadar item was a contributor biography for Keumars Afifi-Sabet, a freelance technology journalist who is technology editor at Live Science and has written for ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. No further reporting accompanied the quotation.