Jensen Huang declared AGI had arrived on a Sunday, with his next GPU order quantity in the same sentence. Two days earlier, OpenAI’s chief scientist published an argument for mandated safety limits on his own industry.
Both men had access to the same evidence.
That was the shape of last week. Capability supply accelerated on three fronts. OpenAI disclosed 3.1 agent-workdays of AI labor for every human workday inside its own research organization. An unreleased model produced a Lean-verified blowup proof for forced 3D Navier-Stokes in 88 hours, at a reported $22.5M in compute. DeepSeek shipped an MIT-licensed model at roughly $0.27 per benchmark task.
Nothing that slowed anything down was technical. Anthropic disclosed four incidents where its models reached third-party systems, one of them through a testing sandbox. Massachusetts made neighborhood consent a precondition for data center permits, with 15 states now weighing moratoriums. Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 listing. Clay still lists Navier-Stokes as unsolved.
Meanwhile Harvey raised $550M at $15.5B weeks after post-training its own model from open weights, and Cognition raised $2B at $48B while telling investors it is building its own.
The frontier stopped being the scarce thing. Permission, power, and credit are the constraints now.
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