Perhaps one lesson the US might take from this is that they need to play nice globally if they want to maintain the same level of influence and dominance over the tech sector.
Everyone rolls thier eyes when the US calls out China for stealing user data.
With tech billionaires in front row seats at the recent inauguration the tech sector feels far more intwined with their government than ever, fuelling suggestion that there is no separation between the two.
All the while the new US administration is busy threatening allies with high tariffs and even annexation.
And so when choosing an AI product a purchaser might well say to themselves “These folk are all just as bad as each other, I can’t really trust any of them” at which point they’ll choose the cheapest easiest to run most open source model available to meet their requirements, regardless of its origin.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out.