Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has linked calls for slower artificial intelligence development to profitability pressures. According to Yakovenko, laboratories may want to protect trillion-dollar valuations while managing infrastructure costs and investor expectations. His reaction targeted Anthropic chief Dario Amodei’s manifesto, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” which proposes measured development of advanced models. OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk also supported safeguards, creating unusual agreement among industry competitors.