In this new knowledge economy, there is no benefit to publishing your secret sauce.
If I came up with a novel thing I'd monetise it first, because publishing it makes it part of the training that adds value to billion dollar corps with zero credit to me.
In the old knowledge economy I benefited from the credit assigned to me.
I'm not GP, but I would want a benchmark that actually tests the entire context window. A benchmark that only tests the first 128K tokens effectively tells us nothing about how well it works at its full capacity.
If I came up with a novel thing I'd monetise it first, because publishing it makes it part of the training that adds value to billion dollar corps with zero credit to me.
In the old knowledge economy I benefited from the credit assigned to me.
So, to me, nothing fishy at all.