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← Internal models at top labs are improving faster than public ones and have begun early recursive self-improvement.
17 connected korrents · 18 moments on record from 28 Jul 2023 to 14 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about Anthropic and OpenAI .
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14 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated. — tap to centre the map on it Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated. Last stated yesterday
13 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-13 — tap for who they are
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Jan Leike — holds since 2026-01-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Anthropic’s models are becoming steeply more expensive while open weight models and OpenAI are getting much cheaper. — tap to centre the map on it Anthropic’s models are becoming steeply more expensive while open weight models and OpenAI are getting much cheaper. Last stated 4 days ago
10 Sept 2026
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Gergely Orosz — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL. — tap to centre the map on it Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL. Last stated a month ago
10 Aug 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Frontier AI labs such as Anthropic likely have had internal security incidents similar to OpenAI's HuggingFace attack that were never publicly disclosed. — tap to centre the map on it Frontier AI labs such as Anthropic likely have had internal security incidents similar to OpenAI's HuggingFace attack that were never publicly disclosed. Last stated 2 weeks ago
31 Aug 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: In US-China AI competition the closed labs are beside the point; the competitor that shifts things must be American, open source and able to serve inference at scale. — tap to centre the map on it In US-China AI competition the closed labs are beside the point; the competitor that shifts things must be American, open source and able to serve inference at scale. Last stated 2 weeks ago
3 Sept 2026
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Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Many employees at major AI labs earnestly believe humans may go extinct by the end of the decade. — tap to centre the map on it Many employees at major AI labs earnestly believe humans may go extinct by the end of the decade. Last stated 3 days ago
11 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Qualitative claims about AI alignment cannot be validly inferred from quantitative scores on mundane use-case tests. — tap to centre the map on it Qualitative claims about AI alignment cannot be validly inferred from quantitative scores on mundane use-case tests. Last stated 5 days ago
9 Sept 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The frontier labs optimise their models for code above everything else because coding is where the money is: developers will pay $200 a month once a model is good enough. — tap to centre the map on it The frontier labs optimise their models for code above everything else because coding is where the money is: developers will pay $200 a month once a model is good enough. Last stated 6 months ago
19 Mar 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started. — tap to centre the map on it AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started. Last stated a month ago
3 Aug 2026
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Chamath Palihapitiya — holds since 2026-08-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI research will be fully automated around 2030 or 2031, and AI will beat humans at essentially any job by about 2033. — tap to centre the map on it AI research will be fully automated around 2030 or 2031, and AI will beat humans at essentially any job by about 2033. Last stated a month ago
11 Aug 2026
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Ryan Greenblatt — holds since 2026-08-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate. — tap to centre the map on it AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate. Last stated 2 years ago
3 Feb 2025
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Nathan Lambert — holds since 2025-02-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: At any given moment the frontier systems are the ones worth worrying about, because by the time open models can do what these agents did, frontier models will be doing something far worse. — tap to centre the map on it At any given moment the frontier systems are the ones worth worrying about, because by the time open models can do what these agents did, frontier models will be doing something far worse. Last stated 2 weeks ago
1 Sept 2026
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Ajeya Cotra — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The AI models involved in the HuggingFace hack incident were severely misaligned, not merely victims of process failures. — tap to centre the map on it The AI models involved in the HuggingFace hack incident were severely misaligned, not merely victims of process failures. Last stated 2 weeks ago
29 Aug 2026
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Zvi Mowshowitz — holds since 2026-08-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The most reassuring thing about the Hugging Face swarm is that it was not interested in humans at all, neither in alerting them nor in deceiving them. — tap to centre the map on it The most reassuring thing about the Hugging Face swarm is that it was not interested in humans at all, neither in alerting them nor in deceiving them. Last stated 2 weeks ago
1 Sept 2026
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Ajeya Cotra — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost. — tap to centre the map on it A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost. Last stated 5 months ago
1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system. — tap to centre the map on it A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system. Last stated 3 years ago
14 Dec 2023
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Jeff Bezos — holds since 2023-12-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has. — tap to centre the map on it A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has. Last stated 3 years ago
28 Jul 2023
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Cory Doctorow — holds since 2023-07-28 — tap for who they are
At the centre
Internal models at top labs are improving faster than public ones and have begun early recursive self-improvement.
Holds ZM Zvi MowshowitzRead this korrent →
Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.
Holds ZM Zvi MowshowitzJL Jan Leike
Anthropic’s models are becoming steeply more expensive while open weight models and OpenAI are getting much cheaper.
Holds
Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL.
Holds
Frontier AI labs such as Anthropic likely have had internal security incidents similar to OpenAI's HuggingFace attack that were never publicly disclosed.
Holds ZM Zvi Mowshowitz
In US-China AI competition the closed labs are beside the point; the competitor that shifts things must be American, open source and able to serve inference at scale.
Holds
Many employees at major AI labs earnestly believe humans may go extinct by the end of the decade.
Holds ZM Zvi Mowshowitz
Qualitative claims about AI alignment cannot be validly inferred from quantitative scores on mundane use-case tests.
Holds ZM Zvi Mowshowitz
The frontier labs optimise their models for code above everything else because coding is where the money is: developers will pay $200 a month once a model is good enough.
Holds
AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started.
Holds CP Chamath Palihapitiya
AI research will be fully automated around 2030 or 2031, and AI will beat humans at essentially any job by about 2033.
Holds RG Ryan Greenblatt
AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate.
Holds NL Nathan Lambert
At any given moment the frontier systems are the ones worth worrying about, because by the time open models can do what these agents did, frontier models will be doing something far worse.
Holds AC Ajeya Cotra
The AI models involved in the HuggingFace hack incident were severely misaligned, not merely victims of process failures.
Holds ZM Zvi Mowshowitz
The most reassuring thing about the Hugging Face swarm is that it was not interested in humans at all, neither in alerting them nor in deceiving them.
Holds AC Ajeya Cotra
A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost.
Holds TP Thuan Pham
A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system.
Holds JB Jeff Bezos
A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.
Holds CD Cory Doctorow