Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets

Prominent researchers are leaving major AI companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta to establish their own independent laboratories. Despite the high-profile debate over whether artificial general intelligence is imminent, these founders are securing significant venture capital investments to pursue alternative technical architectures. This trend suggests a growing industry consensus that current large-scale training methods may not be the final solution for achieving advanced machine intelligence.