'Paragraph Nine Was the Payload': An Argument That Nvidia's Open-Weights Letter Is Really a Distillation Liability Shield
paddo.dev makes the most contrarian read of the week: the letter's substance isn't openness at all but paragraph nine, which defends distillation as 'a widely used technique for model improvement' and urges policymakers against 'conflating legitimate model development techniques with misappropriation.' The timing is the evidence — White House officials accused Moonshot on July 22 of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable to build K3, and the letter landed two days later, with K3's weights due July 27, closing the enforcement window. The piece also lands the incentive point cleanly, quoting Huang to Axios: 'If there's great AI, even if it's open, wherever it comes from, there will be more use...you'll have to sell a lot more NVIDIA computers.'
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