Solana Founder Links Elon Musk and Altman's AI Slowdown to 'Profitability at $1 Trillion Market Cap'
Solana blockchain co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko reacted sarcastically to a sudden agreement among AI industry leaders to force a halt to the development of advanced neural networks. Earlier, the heads of Anthropic (Dario Amodei), OpenAI (Sam Altman) and xAI (Elon Musk) simultaneously called for the industry to slow down, citing safety risks. However, the Solana co-founder linked this sudden concern for humanity to the giants simple desire to lock in their trillion-dollar valuations. Commenting on Amodeis official manifesto, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” on X, Yakovenko limited himself to a concise remark: “Profitability at $1 trillion mcap”. He followed up with a tweet saying he had told his Codex to use tokens more sparingly, openly mocking calls for artificial pauses. Profitability at $1t mcap https://t.co/wEpIG4cJ9N — toly ???????? (@toly) September 13, 2026 The Solana founders message seems obvious: OpenAI and Anthropic have simply hit an infrastructure dead end. Costs for chips and electricity are rising exponentially, while the status these companies have achieved obliges them to show investors real profits instead of endlessly burning through their budgets. Just hit the brakes yourselves: Former White House AI and crypto Czar accuses OpenAI of lying David Sacks, the former White House special adviser on AI and cryptocurrencies (AI and









