Thanks, fair enough. If you want to hear my (shitty) take:
With the Chinese releasing “frontier models” like the 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 I do not believe a true monopoly is possible, unless IP law is extended to prevent open weight models to protect them from competition and make running local LLMs without paying a license fee illegal. Which does seem likely in the western world, but not in the rest.
I am not sure how much exactly the proclaimed intent or ideology matters vs gaining power or money. Basically what they write on their banners. But I do think it can matter quite a bit e.g. “socialism with Chinese characteristics” has done much good for the people, or even Iran’s theocracy which I don’t like but which has principles, even though they are obviously far from perfect. Generally I prefer people who believe in something, really anything, to neoliberals who believe in nothing.
So I don’t expect Anthropic to be paragons of humanism and communism either. And this connection is relatively mild. Hustlers gonna hustle. Very few capitalists would flinch at taking investments from questionable sources. So I would still support Anthropic with their “constitution” as the potentially better alternative to OpenAI or SpaceX. At least until they go public and forget to “not be evil”.