[honeycrispy]

There will be plenty of model providers with prices that undercut Anthropic/OpenAI's prices.

[root_axis]

Doubtful for the same reasons. The frontier providers are working at a hardware scale that will make it impractical to undercut them.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility completely, but it won't be very common.

[honeycrispy]

They also have to pay for staff / model training. Those are not cheap.