Related: https://80000hours.org/2012/03/the-replaceability-effect-wor...
There's a more nuanced discussion that could be had about how to balance relevance with outside influence. But at a foundational level it should be acknowledged that the tradeoff exists, and that receiving outside investment can't alone be seen as evidence of corruption.
Besides that, there's more that can be said about other things like their corporate structure or the degree to which they accelerated the AI race.
Of course that's what Dario thinks because that's what every tech CEO thinks. Dario, Sam, Sundar, probably many Chinese CEOs as well. It's what everyone thinks. That's why they're competing so fiercely with one another. That's why they basically make all the same decisions. That's why we need properly open source AI.
This doesn't seem like the right place to spend my time litigating that point to its fullest extent (no-one here is doing that). But there's plenty of relevant info surrounding eg.:
* The New Yorker article on Altman [1]
* The story behind Anthropic's founding
* Various efforts to influence government policy (a16z policies and contributors [2], Trump's inauguration donors [3], giving Trump credit for AI infrastructure [4], Dario's op-eds [5])
1: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...
2: https://a16z.com/portfolio/
3: https://www.opensecrets.org/trump/2025-inauguration-donors
The day Mythos class models are open sourced will not be a good day. I don't think you understand the impact that will have on the world and on cyber defenders everywhere. It will be pure chaos.
Even if you don't think Mythos-class is the bar, open source has to stop at some point, you don't hand everyone a superweapon.
Handing every skiddie and nation state and APT and hacker group access to Mythos does not help cyber defenders
Even if you don't think Mythos is a big deal: At a certain point models become smart enough as to be dangerous, and you don't give everyone a superweapon. Open source has an end of the line sooner or later.