alt Hacker NewsThe whole system has encryption all the way through.
Otherwise, OpenAI/Anthropic would never use external clouds since the weights are some of the most valuable assets in the world.
The whole system has encryption all the way through.
Otherwise, OpenAI/Anthropic would never use external clouds since the weights are some of the most valuable assets in the world.
Matmuls need access to decrypted weights to do their work.
Which means that getting the full weights out isn't even an "if" - it's "how much effort". The encryption wouldn't do much more than a gentleman's agreement would.
The only real move for Anthropic there is to outline contract penalties for letting weights get leaked, and never give less trusted external inference providers access to cutting edge system weights.
Exposure is limited either way. Opus 4.7 weights are a deprecating asset - it's bleeding edge today, very valuable now, but it'll lose a lot of its value the moment Opus 5.0 drops.