I think it can be informative generally of what they may be targeting. Here, it seems that the interest is in somehow reducing the size and 'throwing away' some factual information for more reasoning capability (obviously this is very loose and uses undefined terms). The 'factual knowledge' only needs to be roughly available with a way to do a look up to recall information.

If you think about a P=NP proof… you show it’s false and collect a million dollars, but if you prove it’s true, you sit tight on your buttocks and print money with your top secret solution.

Just people playing the capitalism game.

It's all fun and games until you end up with companies doing "peer review" and purposefully tanking good papers, making it seem a particular research direction isn't fruitful, while secretly using that same work to get ahead of the competition.