As a non-American who grew up in a deeply corrupt country, this sets off every alarm bell.
It's also why I'm buying my own hardware and running open weight models. There's a few forms of freedom in doing so.
But the marketing didn't really work very well for OpenAI as much as it did for Anthropic. People still Mythos is some mythical-level software that is basically skynet while 5.6 is seen as another product. OpenAI needs to spend way more than the 5 billion it did last year on marketing to keep up.
I am betting on Dario to win the ipo race.