This looks to me like Anthropic and OpenAI preparing the ground to get a taxpayer bailout when they are unable to meet their financial commitments.

"It wasn't our insane trillion-dollar promises, it was those dastardly Chinese communists offering the same products cheaper!"

What stops them to release their models as well? Not asking if greed has limits, it doesn't, I'm talking about a sensible business model that all things being equal consumers can decide for themselves if they want to use a domestic product or not which at that point, why not.