There are really only three companies offering good language model APIs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft Azure by serving up OpenAI's models. That is it.
That's like saying there's 3 competing search engines (Google, Bing, brave?). Or three competing video hosts (Youtube, tiktok, instagram). Or 3 competing cloud providers.
LLMs are infrastructure level services, 3 is a lot of competition already.
LLMs are infrastructure level services, 3 is a lot of competition already.