David Sacks: AI regulation lobbying could cost Anthropic and OpenAI their 6-12 month frontier lead
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-26
Former White House AI czar David Sacks argues that Anthropic and OpenAI's lobbying for AI regulation could knock them off the frontier: they lead commodity models by only 6-12 months, and without that lead their business goes to zero.
Commenter victorexplore adds: "6 to 12 months is the whole moat" — slowing the frontier with rules lets Chinese open models that those rules never touch close the gap, and builders should architect systems so they can swap models in a day.
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