[raincole]

Yeah, sure, please elaborate on how providers such as Fireworks, DeepInfra, Chutes are going to "make it harder to switch."

[mupuff1234]

I'm talking about openAI, anthropic, Google, etc.

They'll offer consumer and enterprise integrations that will only work with their models.

[hedayet]

yes. And they will try both carrots and sticks.

The carrots are already visible - think abstractions like "projects" in ChatGPT.