Comment by siliconc0w
Comment by siliconc0w 2 days ago
It's pretty insidious to think that these AI labs want you become so dependent on them so that once the VC-gravy-train stops they can hike the token price 10x and you'll still pay because you have no other choice.
(thankfully market dynamics and OSS alternatives will probably stop this but it's not a guarantee, you need like at least six viable firms before you usually see competitive behavior)
>It's pretty insidious to think that these AI labs want you become so dependent on them so that once the VC-gravy-train stops they can hike the token price 10x and you'll still pay because you have no other choice.
I don't think that's true? From what I understand most labs are making money from subscription users (maybe not if you include training costs, but still, they're not selling at a loss).
>(thankfully market dynamics and OSS alternatives will probably stop this but it's not a guarantee, you need like at least six viable firms before you usually see competitive behavior)
OpenAI is very aggressive with the volume of usage you can get from Codex, Google/DeepMind with Gemini. Anthropic reduced the token price with the latest Opus release (4.5).