Zvi Mowshowitz on AI

7 quotes from Zvi Mowshowitz on the wall, 2023 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include thezvi.substack.com. Topics: hype, culture, safety. Open on the wall.

  1. 2026
  2. That. did. not. happen

    Zvi Mowshowitz rebutting a WSJ headline claiming China matched Anthropic's AI in cybersecurity, June 2026.

    WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense

  3. Users are increasingly not supervising the work, that's the whole idea

    Zvi Mowshowitz responding to OpenAI's warning that users should supervise GPT-5.6 as a coding agent, in his review of the GPT-5.6 system card.

    GPT-5.6: The System Card

  4. Claude could do the thing, it simply decided not to do the thing

    Zvi Mowshowitz, writing about Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 system card, describing observed failure modes where the model had the capability but did not perform the task correctly.

    Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card

  5. It might be a good model, sir. but no

    Zvi Mowshowitz's assessment of DeepSeek v4 in his weekly AI roundup, arguing it is not a frontier model despite engineering merits.

    AI #166: Google Sells Out

  6. 2025
  7. Potentially the largest theft in human history

    Zvi Mowshowitz's characterization of OpenAI's nonprofit-to-PBC restructuring, written on his Substack in October 2025.

    OpenAI Moves To Complete Potentially The Largest Theft In Human History

  8. 2024
  9. DeepSeek is cooking

    Zvi Mowshowitz, in his analysis of DeepSeek v3's technical report, contrasted its detailed engineering approach with Meta's Llama paper.

    DeepSeek v3: The Six Million Dollar Model

  10. 2023
  11. This market does not think about you at all

    From Zvi Mowshowitz's blog post 'On AI and Interest Rates', January 2023, discussing why interest rates fail to reflect beliefs about transformative AI.

    On AI and Interest Rates