Comment by hydropax

I would think it's the opposite: there's increasing chatter about how long the AI labs will subsidize cheap subscriptions. I suspect that at some point one of them will bump up prices, and the rest will follow. That'll signal the end of cheap subscriptions and prices will steadily creep up.

I'm not saying that local AI is necessarily economically justified right now; but it's certainly quite reasonable to think that in 4 years the subscriptions will be significantly more expensive.