Commentary: labs' 'slowdown' talk masks a simple truth — they're out of compute and money

EXM7777 · x · 2026-09-15

A viral X post satirizes OpenAI's arc: months of GPT-6 Astra hype, near-unlimited usage resetting every 3 days, an instant AGI claim, then Pro subscriptions paused over capacity — followed by talk of slowing frontier development. The author's read: labs aren't choosing to slow down, they simply can't afford the compute anymore.

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