It’s Tuesday night on the West Coast, and Fable cometh. Will Anthropic getting clearance to re-release it prompt OpenAI to push out GPT-5.6 this week, even though its employees are supposed to be on vacation? We shall see!
Today I’ve got a special report from my day at a unique gathering of AI researchers, CEOs, and academics in San Francisco, where the vibe was one of overwhelming concern about the concentration of power at the frontier labs.
I got to the Exploratorium in San Francisco on Tuesday morning for Open Frontier, a one-day “working meeting” of AI researchers and industry folks convened by Andy Konwinski’s Laude Institute. Conversations throughout the day centered on concern about a growing concentration of power in AI, with too much talent, compute, and data pooling inside a few closed labs.
Konwinski’s opening framing was that open AI research is critical not only to the health of the field but to democracy more broadly, and that the frontier is now closing, with AI’s control increasingly being “pulled back behind closed doors.” His charge to the room: the frontier “will not close on its own. It closes through a series of decisions” made by the people in it. “We are not spectators.”
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