[davidsainez]

Why would that undermine its integrity? AFAICT there are a selection of "open" US-based LLMs to choose from: Google's Gemma, Microsoft's Phi, Meta's LLAMA, and OpenAI's GPT-OSS. With Phi licensed under MIT and GPT-OSS under Apache 2.

[sosodev]

Because at that point you don't know where the data came from. You could be training on foreign propaganda without realizing it.

Presumably they wouldn't be training on synthetic data produced by anything less than a open frontier model and those are almost exclusively Chinese