Have people studied weakened forms of Tarski's axiom?

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My intuition about Grothendieck universes says the following.

  1. Axiom of empty set $\leftrightarrow$ There exists a Grothendieck universe.
  2. Axiom of infinity $\leftrightarrow$ There exist at least two distinct Grothendieck universes.
  3. Tarski's axiom $\leftrightarrow$ There exist as many Grothendieck universes as there are entities in the domain of discourse.

Is this intuition correct? And if so, have people studied axioms that sit between 2 and 3? Say, asserting the existence of countably many distinct Grothendieck universes?