No, in fact inference is far cheaper than most think, see analysis for serving Kimi K3.
If you mean OpenAI and Anthropic's investments into R&D, ok, perhaps.
However, they will not be able to increase prices unless what they are offering next is a significant enough improvement over the current SOTA, which might only be six months ahead of the Chinese models.
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No, in fact inference is far cheaper than most think, see analysis for serving Kimi K3.
If you mean OpenAI and Anthropic's investments into R&D, ok, perhaps.
However, they will not be able to increase prices unless what they are offering next is a significant enough improvement over the current SOTA, which might only be six months ahead of the Chinese models.