Comment by b112
17 hours ago
Haven't read the blog, but I can think of a good reason to sell. HQ moves to Norway, no more direct US government interference.
(they can still interfere, just not anywhere near the same scope)
You may think "but government ownership means more interference", and yes, but not radicalized, crazy assed, mercurial, emotional interference.
Yeah, move to EU to avoid government interference. Who wouldn't have thought that?
Norway is not part of EU (if by EU you meant European Union, not just a country in Europe)
Norway is participating in EU trade, but is not its member. They are part of Schengen (passport-free travel between 29 European countries).
On the other hand, move to the EU and market to customers who don't want to worry about trade wars disrupting their business or the US government subpoena-ing data. Probably not a big enough market to justify that move yet, but it's not obvious to this American that my government is going to reverse its current self-destructive course.
The US government would never allow a sale. Frontier intelligence given away? It is the ASML story all over again. I would hope we have learned our lesson.
> no more direct US government interference
Bro, c'mon.
If the US wants to interfere with something they will interfere with it.
To think otherwise is Euro-brain-maxxing.
You didn't even make it to the parent's third sentence "bro".
> they can still interfere, just not anywhere near the same scope
This sentence is fundamentally wrong. If the US government really wants to put Norwegian-owned OpenAI out of business they will do so.
OpenAI needs the support of the US to exist regardless of where they are headquartered.