The researchers getting rich off Anthropic secondaries are cheering for the thing that would make them ordinary employees again.
Right now they are paid like NBA free agents because they are the labs’ most visible moat. The frontier labs are struggling to hold a durable, ownable edge: models get copied, undercut, or matched by cheaper and open rivals within months. So the real advantage lives in a few hundred people who know how to push the frontier, and who can also leave, raise billion-dollar, double tranched seed rounds, and compete directly.
That is why the labs are paying them not to leave. with secondaries as retention payments, mission / fear, etc...
Pharma shows where this can end up. In a drug company, the value does not belong to the scientist. The scientist can be paid well, but not hundreds of millions over three or four years, because the durable value sits in the patent and the FDA approval. The researcher who discovered the molecule can quit tomorrow, but the company still owns the asset.
A regulatory moat would do something similar for AI labs. It would move value from the person to the institution.
Regulation is a wall against three threats at once: competitors, open source, and the labs’ own researchers. The researchers getting rich off secondaries today are, by cheering the regulated future, voting to end the exact leverage that made them rich.
We are still massively short compute. $META and xAI are selling compute because there is no inference demand for their models. It's a compute allocation problem (too much compute in the hands of players with no internal use for it) not a compute surplus problem.
LeBron James, 41, announced he’s leaving the Lakers one day after his son Bronny’s $2.3M contract became fully guaranteed.
After an eight-year tenure with the Lakers, it remains to be seen what he’ll do next. A return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, his hometown team, which he led to a historic 2016 title, would be a poetic final chapter — and could give Cleveland the missing piece it needs to get over the hump.
https://t.co/tN5tzBDdq5
LeBron James, 41, announced he’s leaving the Lakers one day after his son Bronny’s $2.3M contract became fully guaranteed.
After an eight-year tenure with the Lakers, it remains to be seen what he’ll do next. A return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, his hometown team, which he led to a historic 2016 title, would be a poetic final chapter — and could give Cleveland the missing piece it needs to get over the hump.
https://t.co/tN5tzBDdq5
GLM 5.2 might be the “ChatGPT moment” for local AI
The moment many of us see the value in local models
GLM 5.2 isn’t perfect, but it’s really good
1M token context window so it holds an entire codebase at once. Top open model on coding right now. MIT licensed with zero restrictions.
And it runs on your own machine through Ollama or LM Studio.
When you're using it, it kinda feels like Opus 4.8.
I honestly can't believe how good it is.
2027 is probably the year of local AI.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
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