New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- If Elon Musk is to be believed, as per his post on X, we are "on the event horizon of the singularity".

The event horizon is a boundary that marks the outer edge of black holes, the point from which nothing can escape - not even light. AI singularity refers to when artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid, unpredictable technological growth - it's known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Hence, Musk is suggesting that the world is on the cusp of AGI.

His post comes when big tech companies including OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Deepseek, and Musk's own xAI are bending backwards to promote their reasoning models, which are also known as chain-of-thought ones. As opposed...