# Google wants to own the AGI ruler—and DeepMind just published the first draft

- slug: google-wants-to-own-the-agi-ruler-and-deepmind-just-published-the-first-draft
- date: 2026-03-20
- category: Artificial Intelligence

The company that defines the AGI benchmark owns the AGI conversation

Google DeepMind has a proposal: stop arguing about when AGI will arrive and start measuring it.

The company published a paper this week titled "[Measuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy](https://storage.googleapis.c...

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