I think Google has deeper pockets than OAI. The only competition I can see getting priced out by higher interest rates is Anthropic

Saying we should replicate the Russian economy then?

I'm mocking the whole idea of this or that lobbying being done to crush a particular competitor, when tech companies are very much a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats business.

They don't want to crush a particular competitor, they want to crush all competitors :)

Tech companies like Microsoft, one of the few ever convicted monopolists in the US