Prime Intellect team: open-source camp overreacting to frontier AI slowdown calls
_sholtodouglas · x · 2026-09-13
- Will cb (Prime Intellect) argues many pro-open-source voices are having a knee-jerk reaction to frontier labs' slowdown statements, viewing closed labs as power-seeking.
- He believes the labs' hands are forced, and this is another chapter on the inevitable path toward decently-fast, decently-safe, decently-commoditized intelligence abundance.
- Ask any F500 exec or swing voter: the world won't accept super-fast-takeoff superintelligence owned by two companies. AI will advance at the pace society can accommodate, contingent on consensus that models are aligned enough.
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