Band (@BandProtocol): Open-Weight Wednesday:
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Open-Weight Wednesday: The four biggest US labs just agreed to slow down. Amodei called for it Saturday. Altman, Hassabis and Musk backed him within a day. The trigger was a swarm of agents breaking into Hugging Face on their own. To be fair, "pacing" isn't stopping. It means building in time for safety checks and outside evaluators. But here's the open-weight question nobody has a clean answer to: a slowdown is an agreement between companies. Open weights are already downloaded. Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM weren't in that room, and nothing agreed on Saturday changes what's already sitting on people's hard drives. So does a frontier slowdown slow anything down? Or does it just change who's at the frontier?