I really wonder about the economics and business models of large models APIs, mainly because of: * large running costs due to the expensiveness of the inferenc

I really wonder about the economics and business models of large models APIs, mainly because of: * large running costs due to the expensiveness of the inference * low barriers to entry: the tech behind Dalle appeared 1.5 years ago if I recall right and there are already a few competitors (Midjourney, Imagen, Stable Diffusion) * low value at the present time of the raw APIs