Dario Amodei does not want China, ruled by a Leninist party-state, to control AI. Instead, he wants the AI revolution to be lead by a small group of responsible professionals like him and his coworkers at Anthropic. A vanguard, if you will.
doing delayed/limited releases would play exactly into anthropic’s hand. their wet dream is heavy govt regulation that would lock in the existing big labs and make it impossible for new contenders to even try.