Issue for any country that is not China. A single country getting the most AI tokens business would be generally bad for global economy. Hoping against hope that this business gets globally distributed and there is a healthy marketplace competition overall
It’s all about economic warfare. The cheaper you can run the models, the cheaper you can offer them. Undercutting expensive tiers with token limits or exuberant billing practices.
You are right to be scared, because this race to the bottom also provides open weights/models/qat’s for the rest of us and it’s been crazy to see how good they can be on a consumer grade RTX card.