its a cartel looking to end competition though

the actual race is to keep having revenue, since everyone is still willing to pay more for the best model.

we as consumers of LLM models lose out by the arms race ending by the creation of a cartel

what happens if they get this regulatory capture is that all the frontier labs put effort into making inference cheaper, and become extraordinarily profitable, at the expense of us consumers, who really want better models, at a subsidized price