That likely won’t change if other competitors don’t take the lead at some point. If companies are willing to pay top dollar for the best models AND they get to extract as much money from Chinese labs distilling Astra/Fable it makes no sense to lower prices. Obviously not great for everyday users who don’t have unlimited money.
> If companies are willing to pay top dollar for the best models
But they are not willing to pay. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137
The referenced NYT article says Open Source LLM's market share increased to 58% from yesteryear's 10%.