# Executives Are Adapting to Models the Frontier Has Already Left Behind by Emad Mostaque > Executives are still learning how to absorb today’s models while laboratories prepare much stronger ones and the compute market tightens behind them. Organizational adoption can lag twice: first behind capability, and then behind the infrastructure required to catch up. > **— Adapted from Emad Mostaque**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [34:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdb8UmPnh0&t=2052s) — *The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"*, Moonshots, October 7, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source excerpt:** “CEOs—we talk to them all the time—will take the existing models and go, “Okay, how do I metabolize that into my company?” They’re not even seeing that the new models that are 10× better are coming along in 3 months, and that changes the game completely again. Then you need to worry about compute after that.” - **Editorial status:** The poster is explicitly labeled **Adapted from** because it consolidates spoken context into a self-contained proposition. It must not be represented as verbatim speech. Numerical claims, forecasts, legal interpretations, and claims about current organizations remain the speaker’s assertions unless separately verified. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots|All Things Superintelligence Research — The Coming Manhattan Project — Moonshots]] preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, timing, and the source-fidelity boundary. - **Preparation ledger:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots - Reminder and Wiki Preparation|Reminder and Wiki Preparation]] records candidate 12, its mechanism, evidence posture, and misreading risks. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Wiki source hub:** [[wiki/Moonshots - The Coming Manhattan Project|Moonshots — The Coming Manhattan Project]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Emad Mostaque|Emad Mostaque]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Compute Scarcity|Compute Scarcity]] - [[wiki/Compute Reservation|Compute Reservation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Executives are still learning how to absorb today’s models while laboratories prepare much stronger ones and the compute market tightens behind them. Organizational adoption can lag twice: first behind capability, and then behind the infrastructure required to catch up. — Adapted from Emad Mostaque, Moonshots, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-emad-mostaque-executives-are-adapting-to-models-the-frontier-has-already-left-behind ```