Solana blockchain co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko reacted with sarcasm to the simultaneous call from leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI for a slowdown in advanced artificial intelligence development, citing safety risks. Yakovenko interpreted this sudden concern for humanity as a simple desire for the giants to consolidate their trillion-dollar valuations. David Sacks, former White House special adviser on AI and cryptocurrencies, highlighted the hypocrisy of these calls, arguing that the imposed regulatory restrictions would primarily serve to eliminate startups and create an artificial duopoly between OpenAI and Anthropic. Despite these statements, markets did not appear to be panicking at Monday’s open, with a potential slowdown in frontier models not implying reduced investment in AI infrastructure.
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