One trivial reason might be the size of the artefacts / hardware requirements? Kimi K3 is ≈ 1.5 TB and requires multi million dollar hardware to run. Compared to e.g game development, I'm guessing that it's not like a bunch of people at Anthropic/OpenAI have the models running "locally".
replyIt's easier to protect a power substation from being stolen then a Rolex watch
Or the ones doing the stealing are so competent (or embedded) we don't hear about it
replyThat's "only" 11h of download at 300Mbit/s
replyprobably a bit harder to steal terabytes of data, and the weights aren't what people are after anyway - distillation is basically "stealing" a model and you can do it from outside
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replyPeople working at OpenAI have stock options. People working at MS and Rockstar do not.
replyLeaking negatively affects investment while the “whistleblowers” are largely just saying “our tech is too good” which increases investment into those companies.
Ultimately, it always comes down to money.
SSO and hardware sec keys. And the models are located in very few places. Few if any people have direct access to them. Then due to the size of the models you can detect and stop a theft just by monitoring the egress traffic.
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