AGI: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
AGI came up in 9 of 89 episodes (10%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 16% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 9 episodes behind the newest bar
- Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- John Arnold Joins, 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPNTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13 · said it 15 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 12 times
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 12 times
- GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuel…All-In Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
More from the counts
- Mostly one show: TBPN has 7 of the 9 counted episodes in the newest four weeks.
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…special human being. I sometimes quantify the coming of AGI as 10 times the industrial revolution at 10…”
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlene…
“…represent the beginning of what I would call AGI models. These are models with massive step function improvements and…”
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…
“I think it is very hard to be the right amount of AGI pled. It's very easy to build the product for the super AGI…”
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…
“There's this idea that Dario said on the podcast, and others have said, which is, "We don't need continual learning for AGI, in-context learning is enough." If you believe that, then you have to think that we have to get to a…”
How GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope
“…later or whatever they always dreamed dreamed of building AGI when they were four and that's why Sam started OpenAI…”
The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil
“…around you is VC backed. Everyone around you is like building AGI and it's interesting that you are deciding to…”
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founde…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…challenge with AI in general my a my personal what is AGI rule is AI that actually learns and right now what makes…”
Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLar…
“Welcome to Venture, baby. This week, AGI's arrived according to Jensen Huang. Next, we have OpenAI…”
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
“…going to get it soon. Greg Brockman says he believes OpenAI has entered the AGI era. And uh we've talked about that here…”
GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuel…
“…for about five minutes, and then they get amazing, and then they get, "Oh my God, is this AGI?" And all of that happened since last year, even just within the last nine months. We have…”
DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Po…
“…telling us there's not like the secret room with the AGI running there with the master plan that has all the answers…”
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 7 | 19 |
| All-In Podcast | 1 | 9 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 5 |
| Latent Space | 0 | 11 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 0 | 4 |
| No Priors | 0 | 2 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 2 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| How I AI | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| My First Million | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “AGI” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.