Frontier slowdown may just be Big Tech hoarding capability behind safety
VraserX · x · 2026-09-16
The author is suspicious of the sudden frontier-slowdown consensus: if OpenAI, Anthropic and Google coordinate on safety while their internal models keep getting stronger, AI hasn't really slowed — only everyone else's access to it.
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