Usage is not going down. Take a look at their published revenue, it has a nice hockey stick shape.
I’m not making a bigger argument other than I disagree with that one datapoint you mentioned.
usage may shift to models run locally, albeit trained by the frontier labs, increasingly over time, though.
A floppy hockey stick.
Revenue growth q2 to q3 was significantly lower percentage wise than q1 to q2 and they swung back to net loss.
When you sell people 6 quarters for $1 they tend to buy a lot. Useage is a poor metric here given the capital intensive nature of this business. What matters is can they do this in a way that makes money to the degree that justifies the valuation, and there they have not yet demonstrated this is possible.