The two companies that called for an AI pause just shipped SOTA models on the same day
rand_longevity · x · 2026-09-23
randlongevity pointed out the irony: the two companies that once called for a pause on giant AI training runs each released SOTA models on the very same day. As the author quips, "we are not slowing down, we are still accelerating nicely"—a nod to how thoroughly the pause letter has given way to frontier-race dynamics.
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