Well, it’s great marketing for LLM products at the enterprise level. Even if they weren’t sure, they have every incentive to run with it now, and the issue a “whoopsie daisy” apology later after the tech media stopped paying attention.

This is why i can't wait for a new AI winter or atleast a fall(the bubble deflating slowly). Just like you can now really see how useful web3 and NFT really are...

Are you roughly comparing the long term viability of LLMs to NFTs as if they are anywhere in the same realm?

How long can llms exist at this current price level? Once they raise prices the market gets split. One side is the companies who will pay the increases and the other side is the public portals which become unaffordable. Public side might compare to NFTs while the other looks like more like the cloud where companies will overpay for better features they don't really need.

We have open-weight LLMs like DeepSeek that prove the cost of running inference with near-frontier models can be very cheap.