AI researchers gather in San Francisco to voice concerns over frontier lab power concentration
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Alex Heath
Summary
A brief report from the Open Frontier gathering in San Francisco, where AI researchers, CEOs, and academics expressed concern about the concentration of power at frontier AI labs. The piece also teases upcoming AI model releases (Anthropic's "Fable" and potential GPT-5.6 from OpenAI) and notes broader concerns about China's AI progress, talent drain, and AGI hype.
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China is winning, the talent drain is real, and AGI is overhyped
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