Patel says safety and regulation are already slowing top labs’ releases

What was said

"This regulation that they advocate for is actually slowing down the labs a lot more than it slows down the open-source Chinese language models. OpenAI not releasing Astra. OpenAI stopping training for two weeks."

Patel claims that safety and regulatory pressure is constraining frontier labs’ deployment and training tempo, and argues the effect is asymmetric versus open-source Chinese models. He cites, as examples, OpenAI “not releasing Astra” and “stopping training for two weeks”, and also alleges that labs are not releasing their best models to the public, which would affect revenue per unit of compute.