I'm not saying this will happen, but it seems to me like an incredibly silly move.
They may be geniuses, but AGI is an idea whose time has come: geniuses are no longer required to get us there.
The Singularity train has already left the station.
Inevitability.
Now humanity is just waiting for it to arrive at our stop
I think AGI is going to arrive via a different technology, many years in the future still.
LLMs will get to the point where they appear to be AGI, but only in the same way the latest 3D rendering technology can create images that appear to be real.
I think the path to AGI is: embodiment. Give it a body, let it explore a world, fight to survive, learn action and consequence. Then AGI you will have.
For example, you're limited to one body, but an A,G|S,I could have thousands of different bodies feeding back data to a processing facility, learning from billions of different sensors.