"Pushing to help make it a reality" as in they want credit if someone else does it with this lot of LLMs. If they built something that conforms to everyone's definition of AGI I doubt they'd release that thing, unless someone else was about to.
At least there is a non-zero chance with DeepSeek vs OpenAI which 100% will not open source AGI if such a thing is ever realized.
Over at OpenAI it's profits over the good for humanity.