It made me raise my eyebrows when everyone was rushing to jump to Claude because OpenAI agreed to work with the DoW. Both companies are just as shitty as each other and will resort to underhanded tactics to stay on top.

Go China to be honest. They're the most committed to open AI research and they have more interesting constraints to work under, like restricted access to NVIDIA hardware.

But then the Chinese government has the ultimate say and, propaganda aside, if they don’t like what your product is you might suddenly lose access to said LLM provider.