Viral take mocks frontier labs' 'slow down' plea as open source closes the gap
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-13
Dr. Eli David's sarcastic post frames the current open-vs-closed dynamic: with Nvidia reportedly backing Hugging Face and Chinese open-source models closing the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI, frontier labs worried about fading IPO prospects are reduced to asking everyone to 'slow down'. Shared by AlexTensor. Note the premise is satirical/assumptive — read it as an industry sentiment sample, not reporting.
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