Beff Jezos: big labs are out of compute headroom and engineering panic for a regulatory cartel
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-13
Beff Jezos offers a counter-narrative to safety-driven slowdown calls: big labs' exponential compute scaling has become unsustainable due to sluggish energy build-outs, leaving them short on compute. 'Every crisis is an opportunity' — he claims they're using an engineered panic to achieve a regulatory cartel.
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