Maybe "readiness" is quite a flexible category? You're mid-training for your next model; a rival releases something; you clear the boards and release the model without completing the training run?
Touche, aborted training runs probably do happen often. Closed model providers have zero incentive to announce a new model with less-than-best benchmarks.
I don’t think the runs need to be aborted… you can just release a mid-training checkpoint!
you'd be crazy to not be taking snapshots on the regular, many good reasons besides failures