- Price race to the bottom with near-instant LLM responses at very low prices are on the horizon
Maybe a big price war while the market majors fight out for positioning but they still need to make money off their investments so someone is going to have to raise prices at some point and youll be locked into their system if you build on it.
Maybe for the time being. I don't see how else they monetize the incredible amount the spent on the models without forcing people to lock into models or benefits or something else.
It's not going to stay like this I can assure you that :).
> they still need to make money off their investments
Depends on how you define this. Most of the top companies don't care as much about making a profit off of AI inference itself, if the existence of the -feature- of AI inference drives more usage and/or sales of their other products (phones, computers, operating systems, etc.)
That's why, for example, Google and Bing searches automatically perform LLM inference at no cost to the user.
