beffjezos: Pacing letter would nuke open-weights industry; enterprises want to own their weights
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-13
- Beff Jezos argues the real national security risk lies elsewhere and that banning open source is the wrong fix.
- Enterprises want to own their weights, not be farmed for valuable IP and data embedded in their token traces.
- Quoted context: US enterprise faces a bad trichotomy — closed strong American models, open strong Chinese models, or weaker open American models; blue-chip execs are unhappy with all three.
- Core claim: the pacing letter is effectively trying to destroy the emerging open base model + RL fine-tuning industry.
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