I was initially hopeful after reading Dario Amodei’s “We Must Pace the Frontier” blog post that Anthropic would slow down and that race dynamics between frontier labs would become less intense.
But just one month since the blog post Anthropic has already released two new frontier models: Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, both of which have SOTA capabilities on some benchmarks.
So I doubt that Anthropic’s speed of releasing new models has changed much since the blog post was published.
Pacing the frontier to reduce catastrophic and existential risk is about the frontier of absolute capabilities, not the frontier of what’s sold to the public. We don’t want the labs to rush to train super-Astra- or Mythos-class capabilities that no one knows how to control or align, but releasing a new Opus or Sonnet (which we can be pretty sure is not going to destroy the world) is fine.
I was initially hopeful after reading Dario Amodei’s “We Must Pace the Frontier” blog post that Anthropic would slow down and that race dynamics between frontier labs would become less intense.
But just one month since the blog post Anthropic has already released two new frontier models: Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, both of which have SOTA capabilities on some benchmarks.
So I doubt that Anthropic’s speed of releasing new models has changed much since the blog post was published.
Pacing the frontier to reduce catastrophic and existential risk is about the frontier of absolute capabilities, not the frontier of what’s sold to the public. We don’t want the labs to rush to train super-Astra- or Mythos-class capabilities that no one knows how to control or align, but releasing a new Opus or Sonnet (which we can be pretty sure is not going to destroy the world) is fine.