The fraud part was multiple independent sources producing fairly indisputable evidence that their "hosted" version of the model was just running GPT and Claude.

The fraud part was multiple independent sources producing fairly indisputable evidence that their "hosted" version of the model was just running GPT and Claude. That alone is enough to completely discredit absolutely everything about this work. As for corruption, I don't believe the excuse "yes file corruption happens". They're model weights. If this was trained (in real life) it was done on some serious hardware with disks with error correction. They weren't storing the checkpoints on microSD cards. It's certainly possible that there was really unfortunate luck and there was corruption, but I don't find that excuse to be plausible. Especially when this is your business (and launch!)