Frontier labs are really just frontier product companies, says critic
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-13
An industry commentator argues that despite their self-conception, frontier labs are not comparable to research institutions at all — they are just frontier product companies that continually need to tell fantastical tales every week to sustain their narrative.
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