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Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-28
Milk Road AI frames Leopold Aschenbrenner as a visionary whose early AI predictions proved accurate, citing OpenAI's cautious 2019 withholding of GPT-2 as early evidence of the trajectory he described.
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Claims
- GPT-2 was released in 2019 and OpenAI initially withheld it for months due to concerns about its potential impact.
- Aschenbrenner made predictions about AI development before these events played out the way he described.
- The tweet implies Aschenbrenner's forecast of AI progress has been validated by subsequent events.
Key quotes
GPT-2 was released in 2019, a model so brittle that OpenAI withheld it for months.
This video is from before any of it played out the way he said it would.