A startup doesn't have the same target of its back as a large publicly traded corporation. It also has a different culture and is expected to take risks that non-startups aren't. In other words, not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Edit: grammar.

Far more likely answer: OpenAI isn't interested in withholding a product to play political cards.

I think this is more related to american-centrism of Google - it is in their other products - e.g. Pixel phones restrict certain features to US.

So was Stadia - restricted to US at the beginning.

Also their are very slow at adding non-English languages to their offering.

OpenAI isn’t a monopolistic behemoth like Google with a cash cow to protect. Google attracts far more attention and has a lot more to lose.

For some values of "world".

But Anthropic still isn't available here. We will see what happens to Mistral (paris, $2B valuation !)

by not having lawyers and believing they did nothing wrong.

you typically see brazen behavior from ignorance.

They got banned in Italy pretty quickly.

But the ban didn't last long (I'm using openAI from Italy)