AI lab staff have gone strangely quiet about next-year capability predictions
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-07-27
A poster says AI lab employees used to confidently predict “cool things” arriving next year, but now they’re oddly quiet.
The comment is less about a specific product and more about a shift in tone: public, time-bound capability predictions seem to have become rarer.
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