Why so? If I'm from Europe or South America, should I hope Anthropic/Openai win?

The better question is why would any rational consumer would want anyone to “win”? Disappearance of competition is the worst outcome for them (I guess being squeezed by a monopolistic company from your pwn country is slightly nicer)

I think it is only rational to want them to fail & to fail hard, to make an example.

To avoid future situations where money is invested on hype only with no regards to what societal disruption it causes.

Answered in a sister thread.

Are you from Europe or South America? Or just asking on their behalf?

They are allies of the US, which includes economic spheres of influence. The premise of the petrodollar is that allies do better by being a part of it than not, which has been true for many, many decades now. China’s rise is providing an alternative for the first time in 70+ years, but so far it’s very unclear if these benefits will truly extend to allies of China or not. For example, China sends their own laborers when building infrastructure in Africa. Sure there’s new infrastructure but also debt to CCP without any benefits of knowledge transfer or local employment.

Yes. They’re flawed, but you don’t want a global police state administered by the PRC.