Huh? Open weight models have been 3-6 months behind for the last year or so. Astra and Fable 5.1 just came out to widen the gap more, 5.1 is 8 points ahead of the nearest OSS model on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. An OpenAI internal model just solved a millennium prize problem.

It’s much more straightforward to me that the calls for regulation are timed with:

1. The Hugging Face incident blowback, especially after third party investigation results

2. Trump-Xi summit on September 24