All three frontier AI founders agree to slow down — observers bet on open-source cost pressure and GPU shortages
nptacek · x · 2026-09-13
After Sam Altman endorsed Dario Amodei's call to "pace the frontier" and committed to independent evaluators, observers noted that all three competing frontier AI founders now agree on slowing down — speculating that open source is killing them on cost, GPUs are running out, or there's an undisclosed financial issue.
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