It’s crazy that OpenAI and xAI were built partly as ways to mitigate @demishassabis’s power and how both are more reckless and less focused on the …

Opinion arguing OpenAI and xAI were founded partly to counter DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, yet both ended up more reckless and less science-focused than the original concern warranted, while Anthropic replicated the LLM race dynamics it was meant to correct. Relevant framing for practitioners evaluating lab incentive structures.