I have an important message for the record. I have tested the GPT-5.4 Pro model with over 100 prompts from my private cross-domain generalization benchmark battery. I am now confident that GPT-5.4 Pro has reached AGI Level 1 threshold! This means it can generalize and deduce novel insights across fields. In other words, it is the best model so far at transferring knowledge across unfamiliar domains, generating nontrivial complex analogies, detecting hidden structures, and maintaining stable performance under adversarial prompts. Many will deny this by moving the goalposts (“but it needs this or that” for AGI), and a significant portion confuse it with messy physical intelligence (see next paragraph). Importantly, this is level 1, meaning AGI will have several more levels, such as persistent memory, real-time learning, and full multimodality. AI progress does not stop once AGI is achieved, but this is a historical milestone for me at least. It is also essential to separate cognitive AGI from physical AGI, which requires embodiment and world models, an intelligence that animals possess and humans are mostly born with (pre-trained). For example, as Yann LeCun claims his cat is smarter than these models, he is not incorrect regarding physical intelligence. I suspect other frontier models will soon qualify as Level 1 AGI, and internally some frontier labs may already be approaching Levels 2 and 3 and I anticipate this being achieved by sometime next year. This is, of course, my personal opinion and posting this as a note to history. I have been following AI for decades and using ChatGPT since December 2022. My threshold for the first step in AGI has been achieved; the other levels will arrive more quickly until we reach ASI by 2028.