







A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
Data on AI Companies
Our database of AI company data, with data on revenue, funding, staff, and compute for many of the key players in frontier AI.
The Four Fits: A Growth Framework for the AI Era
Everything's changed. Here's how to reach $100m at venture speed.

Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)
A pilot assessment of rogue deployment risk at frontier AI companies. Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Keynote
Responsible Innovation at the Frontier - Americans for Responsible Innovation
ARI’s blueprint for federal AI governance is designed to promote safe frontier AI development in America. The blueprint is built around three governance functions any federal proposal should incorporate.

Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human
Simulated human behavior companies raise millions

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.
A Short Guide to Data Strikes and Conscious Data Contribution in the Context of 2026 Frontier AI
Back to the basics of data leverage.

Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks

Official Lean AI Native Companies Leaderboard
Tracking the rise of lean AI native companies revolutionizing the startup world. Discover companies generating billions with minimal teams.

"AI" and Productivity
[I keep bringing these up on Bluesky, so I think it’s time to gather them up and make a post out of them.] This is a collection of articles...
Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1.

A snapshot of research into answering if frontier AI agents can run R&D into AI (which not surprisingly failed apart from "minor findings" and "engineering steps"). The paper lists its TBDs strengths and limits, worth a read before people who don't know theirs jump in arxiv.org/pdf/2607.27191
1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
Pacing the Frontier
www.pacingthefrontier.com
AI 2027

What will be left for us to work on?

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
Taking more seriously the claim that recent ML models do not "reason", it still is quite odd the particular ways that superhuman game-playin…

General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks

StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction