# Frontier AI Releases Accelerated from Seventy Days to Eleven by Ezra Klein > “Frontier model releases once arrived roughly every seventy days; now they can arrive every eleven days. Even as the models become more capable and frightening, they are being released much faster.” > **— Ezra Klein**, *The Ezra Klein Show, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Official episode:** [“This Is Nuts.” An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-nuts-an-openai-insider-explains-why-he-quit/id1548604447?i=1000793623910) — publisher-hosted episode identifying Robinson as Klein's guest and preserving the complete conversation. - **Publisher transcript:** [David Robinson on OpenAI safety and why he quit](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-robinson.html) — official *New York Times* episode page and transcript route. - **Timecoded source object:** [[research/David Robinson on OpenAI Safety, Superintelligence, and the Transhumanist Transition|David Robinson on OpenAI Safety, Superintelligence, and the Transhumanist Transition]], **34:47** — reconciled from the supplied complete YouTube auto-caption transcript and kept in broadcast order. - **Editorial treatment:** Verbal filler, stutters and transcript punctuation are normalized for reading; the quotation remains one contiguous source object and does not join different turns. - **Context:** In this portion of the conversation, Klein addresses the organizational speed and incentives shaping frontier deployment. The complete premise, mechanism and consequence are retained so the statement remains intelligible apart from the episode. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Ezra Klein|Ezra Klein]] - [[wiki/Model Release Cadence|Model Release Cadence]] - [[wiki/Frontier AI|Frontier AI]] - [[wiki/AI Race Dynamics|AI Race Dynamics]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Frontier model releases once arrived roughly every seventy days; now they can arrive every eleven days. Even as the models become more capable and frightening, they are being released much faster.” — Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ezra-klein-frontier-ai-releases-accelerated-from-seventy-days-to-eleven ```