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Frontier Overhangs

'Pacing the Frontier' is framed as — and I believe motivated by — a concern about safety, but it also happens to address several distinct problems faced by the frontier labs. These problems take the form of overhangs that have formed by virtue of how rapidly models are improving; slowing model improvement would reduce the overhangs.

— Ben Thompson
1mo ago

Amazon — whether through vision or good fortune — was positioning itself well for a world defined by inference (given that their inference chip is called "Trainium", I'm going with a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B).

6mo ago

Cybersecurity is inherently adversarial; if attackers use a very powerful AI coding model to hack, defenders probably have to use a model that's equally good or better to defend — and vice versa. This can lead to an arms race where neither side can afford not to shell out big bucks for the latest and greatest model they can get their hands on.

6mo ago

Google is the one that's made the most progress in terms of building a full-stack AI ecosystem.

7mo ago

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