At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, this sounds like a great opportunity to make a statement. US or China, but likelier to be the former. Maybe Clem's on a call with the US government right now?

The wonderful imagination of the outsider

Open source teams have had access to the weights for at least a week now. vLLM folks expect full support on public release of the weights. Anything conspiratorial won't prevent the weights from leaking...

It's just launch day gremlins, like always.