“We Must Slow the Pace”: Amodei’s Essay Unites Musk and Altman — and OpenAI Rules Out a 2026 IPO
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a landmark essay urging the AI industry to slow down, unveiling a three-part plan spanning embedded evaluators, democratic coordination and global agreements. Elon Musk and Sam Altman both backed the call — and Altman ruled out an OpenAI IPO in 2026, tying the listing timeline directly to AI safety.
Altman Admits OpenAI Must Slow Down: Sora Killed, Atlas Closed, All-In on Codex Ahead of IPO
In a candid TIME interview, Sam Altman declared for the first time that OpenAI should slow down: “I think it is a good time to slow down.” The video tool Sora was killed just 103 days after launch, the Atlas browser was discontinued in under a year, and resources are pouring into the developer tool Codex — a sweeping strategic reset ahead of the 2027 IPO. Altman also admitted “people hate data centers,” yet still expects AGI before the end of 2026.







