The behavior of the two companies and their culture are entirely different.

OpenAI listens to their audience, they engage with the community, they're constantly resetting account limits for customers and admit when they mess up, they're reachable, they respond to Github issues and Slack, they open-source their harness and they have open-sourced models and shared research, they put effort into making their products affordable. Sam has always expressed the same sentiment about wanting AI to be accessible to the people - nothing has changed there from before Anthropic was a thing until now after they've become strong competition.

Contrast it to Anthropic, the things they do and the things they say, and it is the complete opposite of all of those. When Anthropic feels threatened, they try shut people down, they try and hide things and deceive people, use political power for their own gain, lobby, fearmonger, gaslight, manipulate. They've become a cult that thinks the end justifies the means, and they think everyone else is too stupid to wield power. Not only do they lie to the public, but they lie to themselves and have managed to convince themselves they're the good guys.

So yes, self-interest plays a part, of course. It is a business after all. But what matters even more than whether it's out of the goodness of their hearts or not is the end result. If the incentives are aligned for OpenAI in a way that is better for everyone while being rewarding for them then that is a good thing. If they're not aligned and they're not benefiting from it, and they do it anyway because they have a good culture of leaders who see the bigger picture, then that's also great. Regardless though, night and day difference when it comes to behavior.