Alignment should be seen as a pre-competitive infrastructure, they could be forward deploying engineers into their own competitors to help bridge the gap where needed.
The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations is similar, if your competitor has a meltdown it’s bad for everyone.
If alignment/safety/control/monitoring etc. are such important problems (they are) then why aren't labs open sourcing everything they have on these topics (without leaking too much IP) and allowing academics and other researchers to contribute to the effort?