Insane 2026 so far, AGI has arrived
The Brex Community announces the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and highlights key tech launches and deals in 2026. Shai Goldman notes that this year has been a banner year for innovation, with notable events including the SpaceX IPO and NVIDIA's purchase of Hugging Face. The community also promotes Pensero, an intelligence layer for hybrid workforces.
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Insane 2026 so far, AGI has arrived
Happy Tuesday Brex Community,
I’ve been in tech for several cycles and this feels like the most rapid time in terms of innovation, key launches and deal activity. While we have several months left and possibly an Anthropic IPO in the fall, 2026 has been a banner year so far, here are just some of the marquee moments:
OpenClaw launch: Jan
Claude Cowork launch: Feb
Cerebrus IPO: May
Claude Fable 5 launch: June
SpaceX IPO: June - largest VC backed IPO ever!
OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face: July
Kimi K3 launch: July
Cursor purchased by xAI for $60B: Aug - largest VC backed acquisition ever!
Grok Bot launch: Aug
Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B: Aug
ChatGPT Astra launch: Sept
Instinct launch: Sept
Hugging Face purchased by NVIDIA for $13B: Sept
Jensen Huang, CEO/Founder of NVIDIA: “AGI has arrived”: Sept
Have a great week!
Meet Bernardo Hernández and Dave Garcia of Pensero
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