> The model isn’t reproducible

Not necessarily[0], it's a WIP, but: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1

[0] Surely they won't end up with the exact same weights, but it should be possible to verify something about the model and approach

Frontier models will never be reproducible in the freedom-loving countries that enforce intellectual property law, since they all depend on copyrighted content in their training data.

I guess something like a kickstarter campaign would be needed to get together the millions of dollars needed per training run

why not? if we could get a version of ChatGPT that wasn't censored and would tell me how to make meth, or an censored version of deepseek that wanted to talk about tank man, you don't think the Internet would come together and make that happen?