The API Economy: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Are Becoming the New AWS

You don't buy a model. You rent it. You pay per token. You pay per image. You pay per second of audio. The model sits on a server. You access it through an API. You are not buying software. You are buying access. This is the API economy. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are not selling models. They are selling access to models. They are becoming the new AWS. This is a fundamental shift. The model is no longer the product. The API is the product. And the API provider has all the power. The Shift:…