[Zababa]

>It's pretty insidious to think that these AI labs want you become so dependent on them so that once the VC-gravy-train stops they can hike the token price 10x and you'll still pay because you have no other choice.

I don't think that's true? From what I understand most labs are making money from subscription users (maybe not if you include training costs, but still, they're not selling at a loss).

>(thankfully market dynamics and OSS alternatives will probably stop this but it's not a guarantee, you need like at least six viable firms before you usually see competitive behavior)

OpenAI is very aggressive with the volume of usage you can get from Codex, Google/DeepMind with Gemini. Anthropic reduced the token price with the latest Opus release (4.5).