Solana founder questions motives behind AI slowdown

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has questioned the financial motives behind an AI slowdown proposal backed by Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk on Sept. 13. Summary Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko linked AI pacing proposals to profitability at trillion-dollar market capitalization levels. Dario Amodei’s plan calls for embedded evaluators, industry coordination and possible international safety agreements eventually. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed embedded outside evaluators and promised further implementation details soon publicly. Elon Musk backed Amodei’s proposal with a brief statement reported by Reuters on Saturday publicly. David Sacks argued laboratories could slow voluntarily without requiring a coordinated regulatory framework from competitors. Yakovenko’s X post reduced his response to four words: “Profitability at $1 trillion mcap.” He did not identify which company the figure referred to or provide revenue, valuation or profitability calculations supporting the comment. The remark responded to a debate started by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who published an essay calling for slower advances in frontier artificial intelligence. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed...