Speaking on the Relentless podcast, the OpenAI CEO said "we are now like in the singularity," and called this the moment.
The singularity is the point where machine intelligence starts improving itself faster than people can improve it, so each generation of systems helps design the next and forecasting stops working.
The reason it does not feel like anything is in the same answer. Altman called progress one long exponential where no single moment is the tipping point.
There is no announcement to catch, no morning where the world looks different. Capability arrives, people adjust within weeks, and the new level becomes the floor.
He made the same point in his June 2025 post The Gentle Singularity, arguing it is far less strange than it should be. Robots are not walking the streets. Most days look like they did in 2022, while the systems underneath keep improving at an insane rate.