[jtbayly]

What if there is actual competition, though? That’s the hope I keep having. If there is a cheaper, better model, I can switch.

[Grimblewald]

For that to work it requires a free market, llms in their current format are a neccesarily closed market. It's like mobile phones. You'll get a sleek somewhat passable product increasingly dated and dysfunctional which every year serves you less and someone else more. Given I can't decide smart phones in their current form are shit, i'll make something better (without enromous capital) meams we're failing open market conditions. Do you see the point i am trying to make?

[jtbayly]

That’s not what free market means.