for the skeptics in government and elsewhere: “pacing the frontier” will compress the margins of the frontier labs. it is a heavy cost imposed asymmetrically on model developers with the strongest AIs in America. by its nature, it would be a terrible regulatory capture tactic↗

frontier labs are absolutely scamming you on API pricing btw GLM-5.2 is $4.4 output at 744B@40B DeepSeek-V4-Pro is $0.87 output at 1.6T@49B (and they are both making money, without any fancy Blackwell chips) Sonnet 4.6 is $15 output Opus 4.8 is $25 output GPT-5.5 is $30 output…↗