No. Venders will want to capture the displaced users. So they will offer lower prices.
Open weight models don’t really compete with frontier models at scale, so they don’t really compete with each other.
Open weight models don’t really compete with frontier models at scale, so they don’t really compete with each other.
I highly suspect models like Sol would be much more expensive without Chinese competition.
So to a point Sota pricing is already affected depending who you ask. And the tendency is for the gap to tighten.