Yeah, that's a possibility. But I believe Anthropic would be in bad shape if they were forced to raise prices too high for Opus 3.5 because the costs of inference are unaffordable. They could always find a compromise solution between demand, remaining competitive and costs (i.e. running at the same kind of loss they are now) but I think the ROI is much greater if they simply not release the model. And that's why they're using Opus 3.5 as a teacher model, because it's the better financial and business decision.