Dossier
Gary Marcus
Coverage of Gary Marcus in the Nexus archive.
- Hyperscalers could end up resembling airlines—plagued by small margins, intense competition, and high expenses, AI skeptic warns
Gary Marcus warns that AI hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet are facing challenges similar to airlines, including high expenses, intense competition, and low margins. The industry's arms race for computing power has led to price wars and reliance on open-source Chinese models like DeepSeek and Zhipu AI as costs rise.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned Mythos posed a national security threat. Washington just responded.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that his AI model Mythos posed cybersecurity and national security risks, prompting the Trump administration to order foreign access blocked. Anthropic shut down the model, drawing mixed reactions, including criticism from AI researcher Gary Marcus and Yann LeCunn, who blamed Amodei for the government's intervention.