It’s also just jargon-y. I call them “AI companies” because people outside the AGI memeplex don’t know what an “AI lab” is, and (as you note) if they infer from someone’s use of that term that the frontier developers are something besides “AI companies,” they’d be wrong!
It’s also just jargon-y. I call them “AI companies” because people outside the AGI memeplex don’t know what an “AI lab” is, and (as you note) if they infer from someone’s use of that term that the frontier developers are something besides “AI companies,” they’d be wrong!