Alignment compute spend will compress frontier lab margins, investor argues
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-15
Investor Gavin Baker cites a senior OpenAI employee: incremental compute spend on alignment is one factor that will compress frontier lab margins. The underlying thread argues that "pacing the frontier" policies asymmetrically burden the labs with the strongest AI, making it a poor regulatory-capture tactic by nature.
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