He does not want the USA to regulate his company. He will lobby against every attempt to do so, he’s proposing a new agency specifically because it’s the most unwieldy proposal possible.
This has been the tech playbook for close to two decades now, it’s time we stop participating in the charade.
I get the impression Altman would like the US to regulate other AI companies, so that only the "responsible" ones can provide AI based services (i.e. OpenAI and Microsoft). It would take care of his moat problem.
I think he will be happy to split the market with Google and Apple, but he probably is scared of Open Source, most server run Linux or BSD and open source programming languages, and most server stuff is based on open source libraries.
Would be the same for LLM, you would have many small but very specific LLMs.
This has been the tech playbook for close to two decades now, it’s time we stop participating in the charade.