Frontier weights stay closed. Capability changed the calculus, and I'd rather be safe than ideologically pure. You're holding up the clip, and you should be.
Dr. Anders Feld called open weights non-negotiable and closing them a betrayal; nine months later Cascade's frontier weights stayed closed on safety grounds.
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Fictional demo · Compute Hours
The open weights pledge
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The highlighted passage appears in the example Receipt. The surrounding fictional dialogue stays in its original order.
Dana Reyes00:35:29–00:35:45
Cascade is the last major lab still releasing everything. How long can that last?
Anders Feld00:35:47–00:35:58
As long as I'm CEO, and I plan to be annoying about it.
Dr. Anders Feld00:36:00–00:36:26 · Selected passage
Open weights are non-negotiable. Closing them betrays the mission, and if we ever do it you should hold this clip up in front of me.
Dana Reyes00:36:28–00:36:36
You're inviting people to clip that.
Anders Feld00:36:38–00:36:50
I'm counting on it. Accountability should be cheap to produce.
Dana Reyes00:41:47–00:41:58
Cascade topped two leaderboards this week. Celebrating?
Dr. Anders Feld00:42:00–00:42:26
Benchmarks are the standardized tests of AI: gameable, beloved by administrators, and weakly correlated with anything that matters.
Dana Reyes00:42:28–00:42:36
Tell us how you really feel about MMLU.
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Recorded in the fictional scenario
Sep 22, 2025
Published in the fictional scenario
Sep 24, 2025
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The highlighted passage appears in the example Receipt. The surrounding fictional dialogue stays in its original order.
Dana Reyes00:06:29–00:06:46
You asked me to do this, so here it is, the September clip, your face, non-negotiable.
Anders Feld00:06:48–00:06:58
I remember him. He hadn't seen the Series 4 evals.
Dr. Anders Feld00:07:00–00:07:31 · Selected passage
Frontier weights stay closed. Capability changed the calculus, and I'd rather be safe than ideologically pure. You're holding up the clip, and you should be.
Dana Reyes00:07:33–00:07:41
What specifically changed?
Anders Feld00:07:43–00:07:58
Three benchmarks I can name and two I can't. The two I can't are the reason.
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Recorded in the fictional scenario
Jun 18, 2026
Published in the fictional scenario
Jun 20, 2026
Selected passages and the surrounding conversation are indexed in their original order. Unindexed intervals are not represented as a complete transcript.
People, shows, companies and statements in this demo are invented. No original recording or external source link is included.