A tremendous amount of work. The annual AGI Conference[1][2] was just a couple of weeks ago, and was the most heavily attended one in the event's history (which goes back about 19 years, IIRC). It was four days of presentations / papers / talks on various aspects of AGI, mostly not focused on LLM's. Not to mention dozens of posters which didn't merit a dedicated talk during the main conference.
And then you have the Neuro-symbolic Summer School[3] that's been running for the past few years, and also just recently took place for 2026.
To anybody not looking carefully, it might be easy to assume that LLM's have "taken all of the oxygen out of the room" with regards to AI. But dig a little deeper and one will find that there's still a lot of work going on pursuing other paths.
A tremendous amount of work. The annual AGI Conference[1][2] was just a couple of weeks ago, and was the most heavily attended one in the event's history (which goes back about 19 years, IIRC). It was four days of presentations / papers / talks on various aspects of AGI, mostly not focused on LLM's. Not to mention dozens of posters which didn't merit a dedicated talk during the main conference.
And then you have the Neuro-symbolic Summer School[3] that's been running for the past few years, and also just recently took place for 2026.
To anybody not looking carefully, it might be easy to assume that LLM's have "taken all of the oxygen out of the room" with regards to AI. But dig a little deeper and one will find that there's still a lot of work going on pursuing other paths.
[1]: https://agi-conference.org/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRA1DoMCCSc
[3]: https://luma.com/NSSS26