OpenAI's roon: labs can't hold back breakthroughs, everyone gets them in a month or two
Tolopono · reddit · 2026-09-16
- OpenAI employee roon replied to researcher tszzl on X, arguing that labs sitting on solutions to important problems must reveal them quickly: "trying to hold onto them is something like trying to stop the tides with a wood fence. Everyone will have those capabilities in a month or two."
- The comment reads as a notably candid take on how quickly frontier capabilities diffuse and why secrecy is ultimately unsustainable.
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