Exactly.

"We're working on something so amazing you better hold us back! Honestly we're going to release our AGI any day now, just a few more rounds of VC and boom."

Moat. A pause stops competitors catching up while theyre ahead

I think it’s cause they are the leader right now, so naturally now that they got theirs, they want to pull the ladder from under them.

Classic conservative behaviour

Anthropic was started from all the safety engineers that left OpenAI over safety concerns