AI lab leaders don't worry about context windows; one thread hits billions of tokens

alliekmiller · x · 2026-08-15

Allie Miller shared an industry signal from her conversations with leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google: they don't worry about context length or context windows — "like, at all."

They all maintain crazy long-running threads, and one told her a single thread of his has accumulated billions of tokens. The detail hints that, for heavy users inside frontier labs, context capacity may no longer be treated as a scarce resource.

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