That's because the max plans are _massively_ subsidized. At API pricing the kind of usage to replace the value of a SWE is going to be way, WAY more than $50/wk. Orders of magnitude more. And to remain a frontier model org that kind of pricing has to continue in perpetuity.
Doesn’t mean perforce is worth trillions.
If you amortize all of their training and salaries over that $5.00 then yes.
If you only amortize the training costs of that specific model then again we're back to no.
Also, big companies can choose to run their own models on their own hardware and get better security and privacy as the data doesn't need to leave their own premises.
Yes, and then they would be reinventing the company owned data center that most big companies have just spent over a decade moving away from. I don't think companies will do that when there are multiple vendors competing to provide that service at what are quite reasonable prices when you consider what paying a human for similar output would cost.