“We’re now, like, in the singularity,” the OpenAI CEO said on the Relentless podcast, published on 25 July 2026. “The singularity is sometimes defined as the point when AI breaks free of our orbit — which is imminent with RSI,” Sidley said. “If AI begins materially accelerating the creation of better AI, that would represent an important step towards what people have traditionally meant by the singularity.” For South Africa, which consumes frontier AI but does not build it, that gap is the whole story. “I would not confidently say that we are already in the singularity,” Rosman said.