[carefree-bob]

I think this has to be done with technological advances that makes things cheaper, not charging more.

I understand why they have to charge more, but not many are gonna be able to afford even $100 a month, and that doesn't seem to be sufficient.

It has to come with some combination of better algorithms or better hardware.

[bandrami]

Making it more affordable would be very bad news for Amazon, who are now counting on $100B in new spending from OpenAI over the next 10 years.

[philipwhiuk]

Someone's going to get burned here that's for sure. This isn't going to end with every person on the planet paying $100 a month for an LLM.

[LtWorf]

A guy from Meta interviewing at BBC a few years ago claimed that every school child in India was going to have the metaverse VR or they'd be left behind in their education, so every family was certainly going to pony up the money.

[throwthrowuknow]

Somethings not adding up. Why is Amazon making financial plans for the next decade based on continued OpenAI spending but you’re saying AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t even close to being profitable, so how can they last a decade or more?

Who’s wrong?

[bandrami]

I take it you don't remember 2008

[arcanemachiner]

Are we before or after the part where they start throwing money out of helicopters?

[bandrami]

That's the interesting question, right? Because if this unwinds during a period of external inflation (say, because of a big war and energy shortage) then even the Bernanke would say helicopter money won't work

[Gigachad]

They probably aren’t planning on making the money on consumer subscriptions. Any price is viable as long as the user can get more value out of it than they spend.

[bandrami]

"Sell this for less than it cost us" was a viable business plan during the ZIRP era but is not now