OpenAI president and co‑founder Greg Brockman said any slowdown in AI development should be limited to firms building the most powerful models, not to open‑source projects or hobby efforts. He framed the debate as about frontier compute — the giant supercomputers worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Brockman’s remarks preceded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s blog pledging to slow advanced‑model R&D. He said OpenAI cut back on model training frequency after the recent Hugging Face hack, which he c

2026-09-14

OpenAI president and co‑founder Greg Brockman said any slowdown in AI development should be limited to firms building the most powerful models, not to open‑source projects or hobby efforts. He framed the debate as about frontier compute — the giant supercomputers worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Brockman’s remarks preceded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s blog pledging to slow advanced‑model R&D. He said OpenAI cut back on model training frequency after the recent Hugging Face hack, which he called unsurprising because the affected agent systems had not undergone alignment training, and that the incident prompted painful internal security and process overhauls.