Cost per token is going to tank; it's a race to the bottom. The frontier model providers have no moat between each other and eventually even the open weight models will be "good enough" for almost every purpose.
Right now the market is expecting something a lot more than "sells a lot of tokens" out of these things to justify their valuation.
Right now the market is expecting something a lot more than "sells a lot of tokens" out of these things to justify their valuation.