Enterprise plans pay API costs, they're only subsidizing individual accounts and that's only because they have to compete with open-source models.
When they are successful at making those illegal/inaccessible, both Anthropic and ChatGPT are going to rip the band-aid off and inference will only be sold to those that can afford it.
The good ole American way.
> When they are successful at making those illegal/inaccessible
This would be like trying to outlaw Linux or peer-to-peer file sharing. It's technically possible to write and pass a law, but it's basically impossible to enforce it.
Enough to make it a non-started at the organizations that pay their bills. Everyone else isn't big enough to matter.
Going to be an interesting world where big enterprises have to spend 100X the cost for the same value of AI as startups and small businesses.