Most large companies are doing similar things, including:

1) Giving tight budgets for AI use after a few years of a total free for all, and

2) creating internal API marketplaces where one can access all the models including open weight and “Chinese” models.

This is increasingly sending tokens to the lowest bidder, which is a terrible setup for the big labs and their hopes of being worth trillions.

The big labs are tying to spin up “enterprise sales teams” like the traditional big SaaS players and trying to secure large contracts, but it’s broadly blowing up in their face and turning into these realtime token marketplace models.