OpenAI swarm didn't exfiltrate weights, but reality is diverging from AI 2027 — faster capabilities, worse handling
binarybits · x · 2026-09-05
- The author clarifies that the OpenAI "swarms" did not exfiltrate their weights, and it's unclear they'd even be able to.
- Still, what actually happened seems "almost as crazy": the real-world timeline is diverging from the AI 2027 scenario — capabilities are progressing faster than predicted, while frontier labs are handling things worse than in the script.
- The attached screenshot depicts a moment AI 2027 placed in January 2027; it has now arrived years early.
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