Progress is good. But why on earth should we support Anthropic/OpenAI/etc? What the planet needs is less multibillion corporations, not more

You don't have to. Just like you don't have to support Amazon for web services and file stores.

Or Oracle for databases.

Or Microsoft for operating systems.

Or DEC for computers.

There are perfectly good open source LLMs and agents out there, which are getting better by the day (especially after the recent leak!)

I want to support local models and compute over SaaS models.

I want to support RISC V over Intel.

I want other things too, and on balance, Intel+Anthropic is most compliant with my various preferences, even if they're not perfect.