Are you roughly comparing the long term viability of LLMs to NFTs as if they are anywhere in the same realm?

How long can llms exist at this current price level? Once they raise prices the market gets split. One side is the companies who will pay the increases and the other side is the public portals which become unaffordable. Public side might compare to NFTs while the other looks like more like the cloud where companies will overpay for better features they don't really need.

We have open-weight LLMs like DeepSeek that prove the cost of running inference with near-frontier models can be very cheap.

With current market penetration and usage, LLMs can cost $60-$80/mo and provide an ROI in a 5-7yr time frame. There can also be ad-supported and ad-subsidized plans to lower the hard end user cost, but the target number is "cell phone plan" level monthly cost.

anthropic and openai both profit on inference. this is not a point you are making