> Nvidia is the one that would get bailed out. As would Microsoft, if it came to that.

> I also think they should be let to fail, but there's no way the US GOV ever allows them to.

There's different ways to fail, though: liquidation, and a reorganization that wipes out the shareholders.

OpenAI could be liquidated and all its technology thrown in to the trash, and I wouldn't shed a tear, but Microsoft makes (some) stuff (cough, Windows) that has too much stuff dependent on it to go away. The shareholders can eat it (though I think broad-based index funds should get priority over all other shareholders in a bankruptcy).