Kind of ironic given almost every AI lab except the one you started and work for actually done model releases to the public, some more "open" than others, but still something.
Look around at what other companies are doing, Qwen/Alibaba seems to have found a pragmatic middleground where they keep the most powerful model variant closed source and only API-accessible, while other models are being released openly to the public, to the entire world in fact, and when the next model release comes around, the previously undisclosed model has now been superseded.
I wonder if Chris ever copy-pasted his writing into Claude and asked something like "Please review this honestly and give me raw feedback, and challenge every claim that is weak", seems there are more "not really reflective of reality" points than just the above.