[lolinder]

> in the consumer conversational AI space.

The "consumer conversational AI space" only exists right now as a novelty, not a long-term market segment. In the not too distant future that space will be covered for most users for free by their hardware manufacturers, and the number of people willing to pay a monthly subscription to a third party will drop even further than it already has.

[potatoman22]

I think it will be at least a few years until your average Joe can run a speech to speech model on their phone.

[lolinder]

I didn't say anything about running locally. Siri and Google Assistant (Gemini) are what I had in mind: assistants bundled with the phone will remove the need to pay for ChatGPT.