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If OpenRouter prices aren't competitive, the providers would need a cartel to sustain that. It's a commodity market.
by edg5000 2mo ago
If OpenRouter prices aren't competitive, the providers would need a cartel to sustain that. It's a commodity market.
- kingleopold 2mo agoYes they will buy openrouter, pass AI laws and regulations so you all pay extra $$$.This always happen with new real industry. Remember how they built cities for cars. This new laws will day all innovation and slow it for few more decades too but this time they will let China win instead because in China they have all of it aligned, no need to have cartel there. Openrouter and it's new owner will restrict othe models, because they will be part of cartel too.
- oblio 2mo agoOr it could be: 1. a subsidized race to the bottom 2. in a frothy bubble market 3. where VC, investments funds are burning money out of FOMO 4. and a desire to eliminate labor costs 5. and governments want to control a technology that will probably be a major military asset