OpenAI’s public roadmap and leadership statements continue to frame 2026 as a year of incremental advances rather than a breakthrough announcement of achieved AGI. Company materials project only “very small discoveries” this year, with more capable autonomous systems and significant scientific progress expected in 2028 or later, while Sam Altman has highlighted nearer-term steps such as AI research interns without claiming general intelligence. Revised external forecasts, including from former OpenAI researchers, have lengthened timelines for autonomous coding and broader AGI-level performance into the early 2030s. These factors, combined with the high evidentiary bar for any official AGI declaration and the absence of verified capability jumps sufficient to trigger one, underpin the market-implied 87% probability that no such announcement occurs before 2027.