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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
you can both agree but you cannot set a global speed limit. China’s progress will force both of you to drop the "safety" rules as always. 🙂
Outside checks are good but if China catches up, will the industry keep its safety rules or change them to stay ahead? That is the real test.
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If China catches up before your models pass the safety checks, what comes first, safety or staying ahead? Outside reviewers can check if you follow the rules. They cannot make that choice for you. If China’s progress can force you to drop the safety rules, Beijing still sets the pace.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
OpenAI/Anthropic models launch strong, then get worse by the day. Something breaks after release. Try turning them off and on again or something 🤷♂️
Why all of the sudden GPT-5.5 isn’t useable anymore! Claude is catching 5-8 mistakes every milestone. Wtf
At some point, the biggest advantage isn't having the best model, it's letting people use it. If US frontier models stay locked behind limited releases while competitors keep shipping, that could end up being a gift to China's AI ecosystem
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.
openai.com/index/previewing-…
That's the real fallout. If the U.S. government can pull the best AI model offline overnight with no public process, every enterprise customer on Earth just learned to diversify away from closed American AI providers. Open-source models. Chinese alternatives. Anything that can't be killed by a Friday phone call.
The White House didn't protect national security. It just made American AI less trustable as infrastructure.
Bloomberg has a copy of the letter Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to Dario Amodei on Friday. When the full PDF becomes available I will post it.
Except:
'Until further notice, you must submit an application for an individually-validated license prior to the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country), including deemed export or deemed reexport, of the Mythos or Fable models to any destination worldwide or to any 'foreign person' wherever located'
Just knew that Dario in 2019 argued GPT-2 was too dangerous to release but Sam released it anyway lol
Now try to export control that 😂
Introducing GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weights
- Significant improvements in coding and agentic tasks
- Strong long-horizon capabilities with a 1M context window
- Two levels of reasoning effort: GLM-5.2 (max) pushes the limits, while GLM-5.2 (high) strikes a strong balance between performance and token efficiency
- MIT-licensed open weights
- Same API pricing as GLM-5.1
Tech Blog: z.ai/blog/glm-5.2
Weights: huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5…
API: docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.2
Coding Plan: z.ai/subscribe
Chat: chat.z.ai
