I dug through OpenAI's "Pacing the Frontier" paper. Tbh, It's quite shocking. OpenAI is actually asking for the US government to slow AI progress for safety. My theory: It has nothing to do with safety and is rather competitive positioning. Models like Kimi K3/other open weights are catching up, and the only viable solution for Frontier Labs to stay ahead is to deliberately stall AI progress as a whole. Open-weights like Kimi are actually trained using outputs and techniques derived from frontier models. Meaning, every time a frontier lab ships something groundbreaking (like Fable), open-weight labs can catch up faster and cheaper by learning from it. Dario has also suggested the US start blackballing the sale of powerful AI chips to China. Hard to believe this entire narrative is purely "safety" based.(Miles Deutscher)