I'm not convinced. Pipelining doesn't mean they're forced to release a model they know will be replaced in a week.

>We're just getting the latest training checkpoints constantly, just to edge out the other lab, while they are trying to come up with something worthy of a new major version number. It's actually worrying, since there's so much pressure to release now.

This makes me think that this is on purpose to prop up the "we have no control over ourselves, please give us a regulatory moat" narrative. The competition is nowhere near extreme enough to justify weekly releases. The Chinese models are still a handful of months behind the frontier, and the frontier companies in the West haven't been pushing the frontier at this rate.