LLM subscriptions are heavily subsidized. I’d be surprised if Claude 20x costed the same after a decade.
The inference is profitable. It’s the training which is really expensive and not being reflected in the subscription prices.
Doesn't deepseek make $38 per GPU-hour? As in they can actually serve profitably?
Inference prices are going only down. It could be that some top subscription costs more in a decade, but I fully believe a full array of competent models will be extremely cheap.