It’s not a matter if there would be people and companies that pay that much money
It’s the objective fact that they would never pay enough to allow the AI companies to get the amount of money they have dumbed into hardware back as a profit
Once the AI bubble bursts AI companies won’t have unlimited funding from investors anymore, once that happens most will go bankrupt, really just the big ones that didn’t make most of their money from AI slop promises will remain
Hardware will get cheaper again and all the open source models being made now won’t disappear so after a while new companies will start developing new AI’s again and improving them again, just not as much and with more responsible spending of funding so they won’t cost as much as the current ones would need to cost to make a profit
Though if hardware prices go down running open source models at your home will become much more practical and cheaper so any new ones would still have to compete with old ones
Looking like their best option is to keep going with gemma