We're talking about chips: stuff optimized for inference and training. It may have a lot of memory, it may be able to perform a lot of operations, but it would be difficult for it to enforce high-level concepts like "woke ChatGPT".

Are you telling me that the investors who give sama $trillions don't expect influence on the final product?

Isn't this the definition of soft power?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

When NVIDIA sells GH200s to OpenAI, they expect nothing beyond the transaction. That's very different from getting trillions of dollars in investment from somebody to build chip fabs, etc.

I meant that the "first world" isn't as fair as you think it is, this should be especially clear now.