As a non-American who grew up in a deeply corrupt country, this sets off every alarm bell.
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.