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by anigbrowl5 hours ago |
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upvoteby Aurornis3 hours ago|
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> imho those prices are artificially deflated to serve as a loss leader.

As a consumer I don’t care. The price I pay is how much it costs.

I’ve been hearing arguments that they could increase the price at any time. For years.

Instead the opposite has happened: A $20/month subscription has become more capable than it was 6 months or a year ago, by a huge margin. I can get so much done within a day of the $20/month subscription that it’s hard to believe it’s so cheap.

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upvoteby hattmall3 hours ago|
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I mean no one should expect them to increase the price in the growth phase where money doesn't matter. Post-IPO when growth has a declining rate, they will (hopefully) have some lock in and blast prices as much as the market will bear.
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upvoteby Aurornis3 hours ago|
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Hardware will get faster. Models will get better.

By the time they reach this point of raising prices, if they ever do, the cost of models with current intelligence levels is going to fall a lot.

So all of these arguments about buying hardware now and switching to open models now to prepare for future price increases are still wrong if they’re argued on the basis of being locked out of cloud intelligence costs.

The cost for a given unit of intelligence is only going to decrease.

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upvoteby 20after41 hours ago|
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That's wishful thinking IMO. Hardware hasn't been improving at a rapid rate and clearly these companies are losing money and burning investor cash at a ridiculous rate. The party has to stop eventually. The price will go up. I expect everyone will have to pay API rates eventually, possibly even higher API rates than the current ones.
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