# 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... ---