OpenAI halves usage on $200 tier, sparking subscription debate
AlexFinn says the $200 subscription's usage allowance is being cut in half and predicts AI companies will move fully to API pricing within two years, with users picking models to match each task.
OpenAI just announced that the $200 subscription will get half the amount of usage moving forward It’s clear where all of this is going All AI companies within the next 2 years will exclusively use API pricing. No more subscriptions Subs only made sense when companies were willing to lose billions of dollars to get you into their ecosystem Now that basically every AI company will be attempting to go public, they’ll no longer be able to burn extraordinary amounts of money They’ll have to report their earnings to the street, and if the number isn’t going up and to the right, that’ll be really bad I don’t think this is doomsday. The cheaper models like Luna and Sonnet are now actually really good. Compared to 6 months ago, they’d actually be frontier That’s more than enough to be spectacularly productive for a good price The consumer behavior is going to have to change. You are going to need to be fine with using an intelligence level appropriate for your work. Not just Astra 6 Max for every single thing you do If you have a Ferrari and a Model 3 in your driveway, you don’t drive the Ferrari to pick up milk from 7/11. Sometimes you use the daily driver car The days of AI subsidies are coming to an end, and it’s probably time we start getting used to it. The party is over.
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