These are terabyte sized files (realistically a multi hour transfer) that you're unlikely to have access to in the first place. Every organization has exfiltration checks these days. You may succeed but you'll want to be on a plane to a non-extradition country no more than hours after you kick off the transfer.
I assume they’re encrypted/DRM’ed when deployed on inference hardware, so only core researchers/sec admins would potentially have some access to unprotected weights, and they are far too well paid to risk it leaking the model
Incentives matter on the average, but people are too unpredictable for categorical statements like that. They can always have other reasons beyond personal gain to leak secrets.
There was no shortage of spies and defectors leaking American nuclear secrets to the USSR during the Cold War.
Newer NVidia cards (H100 and up) support both in-memory model encryption and ‘trusted’ execution environment/remote attestation, not sure how widely used in frontier model deployments, but at least vendor claimed perf overhead is ‘3%’ [0]
The employees are hoping to become very very rich after the IPO and after they are allowed to sell the shares given to them - risking a likely multi-million dollar pay back to leak a model that will be superseded by publicly available models in a couple of years is not a likely decision.