Keep in mind that the prices of the big AI companies are currently mostly loss makers. Their plan is to get sufficient market saturation and dependency of their clients and if they achieve that, they will hike up the prices quite a bit.
(Of course this all depends on if their plans work out, but if not then the smaller local models will probably play a big role in the failure of their plan)
(Of course this all depends on if their plans work out, but if not then the smaller local models will probably play a big role in the failure of their plan)