Kind of amusing that there is basically no mention of their original mission at all here.
My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.
Beat OpenAI. The Founders came from OpenAI so there was obviously some disagreement about the direction there or they simply wanted more control.
Google used to have a motto "don't be evil"
Who enforces the definition of language? Who demands compliance?
Soon as we go down the path of policing and insistence on one true dogma, we veer into religious holy war type behavior.
Obsession with semantics of syntax is a sort of theism even if the syntax and semantics do not refer to the commonly accepted tropes of a specific religion.
I'm not a lawyer (I don't even play one on TV, damn you Odenkirk) so I can't tell you what that means as far as case law for companies getting punished for behaving badly, but in this case, there is supposedly some sort of legal backing for the classification.
Politicians are not interested in assuring such.
Public is busy arguing semantics online; they are not interested in assuring such.
I accept they matter to others but reject such exists as anything but contemporary ethno-objects. Similar to how I acknowledge Christianity exists but am not a disciple of the dogma; I have to accept others believe but do not have to pledge allegiance myself.
Aside from engineering and healthcare, machine operation, with real safety implications, everything else is just parroting and social role-play.
Being a VHS copy-paste of generational semantics isn't the flex you want it to be. Patronize harder though.
But I guess it's easier to make a glib comment than look these things up.
Numerous companies have tried and failed competing with SoTA foundational models. If Anthropic had no moat, Apple and Meta wouldn't be paying them billions for coding asistance.
Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia would all have SoTA competitors to Claude. They all tried and have not produced a competitor.
Instead you have three companies that stand alone making billions from foundational models.
Or just try to use them. They don’t generalize as well.
They are benchmaxxed.
Big companies are handcuffed by Innovators Dilemna etc.