I would think that the animal protein sucked cause of the number of processes that it went through to be able to last years without spoiling. And seems like they aren't focus on taste on the new protein either.
Even if one provider raises prices to the point where things become unsustainable, alternatives tend to emerge eventually. Chinese LLMs, or maybe someone else.
Personally, I'm hoping the next breakthrough won't just be another Transformer-based LLM, but a fundamentally more computationally efficient architecture.
In general, small business has the problem of not having enough data set to use machine learning.
However, I heard about a small guesthouse's example.
They tried to use machine learning for dynamic pricing because they need to set prices properly depends on their supply and demand.
I'm not sure the results of that. But It's an interesting use case using machine learning even if they are a small business.