OpenAI and the commoditization trap

As token costs for LLMs decline toward zero, fundamental models increasingly look like commoditized technology. How can OpenAI and its competitors avoid this trap?

Commoditized technology is quicksand for companies. AI companies will have to carefully navigate the AI terrain to avoid getting stuck in the land of commoditized large language models.

The greatest risk for OpenAI is not that it fails to develop artificial general intelligence or that it fires Sam Altman again. No, its greatest risk is that it can’t esc…