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A released checkpoint is usually described as an endpoint. It is closer to a beginning — ten separately documented failures, from safety training stripped in weeks to weights carrying a hidden payload, show what actually happens once the download starts.
Meta did not set out to start an open-weight movement. A gated research release leaked within a week, and everything that followed — the commercial license, the benchmark claims, a rival's answer — was improvised in response to that accident.
Meta, Mistral, and a growing field of well-funded challengers are shipping open-weight models within a few months of closed frontier releases, changing the calculus for enterprises deciding whether to build or rent.