[ARandumGuy]

Any cost/benefit analysis of whether to use AI has to factor in the fact that AI companies aren't even close to making a profit, and are primarily funded by investment money. At some point, either the cost to operate these AI models needs to go down, or the prices will go up. And from my perspective, the latter seems a lot more likely.

[immibis]

Not really. If they're running at a loss, their loss is your gain. Business is much more short-term than developers imagine it to be for some reason. You don't have to always use an infinitely sustainable strategy - you can change strategies once the more profitable unsustainable strategy stops sustaining.

[v5v3]

They are not making money as they are all competing to push the models further and this R&D spending on salaries and cloud/hardware costs.

Unless models get better people are not going to pay more.