I mean that's the software playbook, get users addicted by offering it cheap and once you have them hooked, you raise the prices. There is no reason to think any non american company wouldn't follow this strategy. It's a different matter than the export control issue entirely and one that is systematic to software in general.

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> There is no reason to think any non american company wouldn't follow this strategy.

This is generally true, but there are some providers offering inference at relatively stable prices. They aren’t Opus-tier models, but some appear to be at or close to Sonnet 4.5 or so. For much of the work I do, this is fine.

Essentially if you aren’t at the frontier, you can find cheaper tokens that aren’t about to be rug-pulled or decommissioned on a whim.

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		> there are some providers offering inference at relatively stable prices for now. Once they get enough customers, why will they not jack up prices is my point. All businesses will act in that manner because it serves their interests. That is not going to change if you're OpenAI or ChineseAI or BelgiumAI. Again, this is different from the export control issue because it's a fundamental business thing. You will always want more money from customers not less and there is no noble business that exists just to make your tokens cheap while they give up potential profits unless they have something to gain from tokens being cheap. They will gradually up their prices as well and squeeze as much as they can like most first-gen AI providers are gradually doing since they got a lot of people hooked already.

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