In the next few months, I think there will be a pushback from big companies regarding closed sourced US based AI labs. I think they are slowly starting to see the issues with basically renting LLMs, where they have no control over the availability of the models (see Fable ) and the fact that OpenAI and Anthropic can steal their IP / edge / “alpha” if they want to and likely they actually do. I think the current system will change into something similar to Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription, where companies can download and host the models on their own as they see fit. Most likely via Hyperscalers or a company big enough can host it themselves. Pricing would look something like this: Sonnet 4.6 / GPT 5.4: $100 / month / seat Opus 4.8 / GPT 5.5 : $500 / month / seat Fable 5 / GPT 5.6 Sol: $1000 / month / seat So developers and security researchers would get the smartest models, powerusers the middle of the road; the rest by default would get the cheapest option. For regular people the LLM providers would probably keep hosting it themselves - because of the training data for the new models. The subsidization would likely remain in some capacity. I actually see this as a win-win: companies would get control over their data and spending; AI labs wouldn’t have to spend trillions anymore on infrastructure build-out, they could be a normal software company, with a stable profit and good margins. I just wanted to write this down, to see in a few years how off I was. Btw, no part of this was written by AI, so I hope you’ve enjoyed the spelling mistakes of a non-native speaker. submitted by /u/vikdean
Originally posted by u/vikdean on r/ArtificialInteligence