Open Letter to Dario: If You Mean It, Mandate Open Weights for All Public AI Models
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-13
AI infra engineer Jake Gold published an open letter responding to Anthropic's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' and Sam Altman's quick endorsement. His counter-proposal: any AI model offered to the public must be released as open weights (internal/research models exempt; governments keep access to unreleased models). The mechanism: frontier funding rests on valuations assuming proprietary weights, so mandated openness would cut future training capital and slow every lab at once—no regulator needed. He argues every slowdown regulation (embedded evaluators, compute thresholds, antitrust-waiver coordination) ends in regulatory capture, since only current frontier labs understand the details well enough to draft it.
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