Not sure if I got the gist of the article right, but are they trying to say that chain of thought prompting will lead us to AGI / be a substantial breakthrough?

Not sure if I got the gist of the article right, but are they trying to say that chain of thought prompting will lead us to AGI / be a substantial breakthrough? Are CoT techniques different to what o1 is doing?? not sure if I'm missing the technical details or if the technical details just aren't there.