Dario: All right, frontier is paced! From now on, AI moves forward at a rate WE decide!
[Kwindla Kramer bursts into the apartment]
Kramer: You guys might want to sit down for this. You know that Chinese place down on 4th? They got a model that's smoking you guys at SWE benchmarks!
[laughter, applause, slap bass intensifies]
Qwen3.8 is basically doing more with less and openai and anthropic built the equivelent of the American culture: all fat, little depth.
You may listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1y_m8pKiKY
1: https://www.dw.com/en/china-alibaba-founder-jack-ma-appears-...
This great quote was brought to us by executives in the 90s at Archer Daniel Midland, an agricultural company.
That’s what comes to mind as I hear about the AI companies talk about pacing themselves.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want to reduce the risk of powerful AI doing bad things.
On being sane in insane places: A tale from inside the marketing department of a frontier AI Lab.
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An alternate read is that the entrenched leaders want to slow down development of competitors.
If Dario or Sam A wants to slow down frontier model development because they believe there is an existential threat, they already have the power to do that single handedly.
If I discovered that I had accidentally invented a doomsday machine, I wouldn’t be furiously providing access to anyone with a credit card.