Zoho's Sridhar Vembu calls Big Tech's push to slow AI development 'cynical'

Zoho co-founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu criticized calls by major tech companies to slow AI development, calling them cynical. He said big firms are free to slow down themselves but cannot ask the entire industry to do so, as LLMs become a commodity with falling prices.

• Vembu: big companies want others to slow down while they move faster
• He says LLMs are becoming a commodity with too many models and falling prices
• Slowing down is incompatible with valuation and profit goals, he argues
• OpenAI and Anthropic have recently urged caution on frontier AI