Equation 3 · Part 5 · Open-Weight AI in 2035: Scenarios and Falsifiers
Symbol W
What this part means
W is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.
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W is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
…jointly produce. Write O(t) for a stylised index of how close the strongest open-weight models sit to the closed frontier — Axis A’s own proxy, anchored in the Epoch and Artificial Analysis readings above [ 1 , 4 ] — and W(t) for the share of open-weight releases operating under standardized external governance: a regulatory regime that reviews them the way closed deployment is reviewed, or a licence that is genuinely OSI-compatible rather than bespoke [ 16 ] . Reaching and holding a position near the frontier…
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