After filing for its IPO, Anthropic says AI should slow down. Fat chance.
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No sooner did Anthropic file for its initial public offering of stock this week than it then put out a missive suggesting that AI model makers need to slow down to let us catch our breath — or else AI can improve itself so fast that human society won’t be able to handle the results.
Some argue that this is further savvy marketing by Anthropic, contending its models are just too good for our own good, but it’s also clear that the company’s leaders mean it. Here’s the thing, though: Who’s going to agree to that? Absent any action, we’re left with … the marketing.
Meantime, SpaceX, which looks to be the first big AI-oriented company to go public — xAI being a unit of the company — detailed that it’s planning to raise a stunning $75 billion.
