It’s the same as the SaaS model. Price keeps going up, and to justify it they keep forcing you to upgrade to new versions with features that nobody asked for.

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theptip 4 hours ago | parent [-]

“More intelligence” is the new feature. Almost everyone is asking for this.

Citation: have you looked at OAI and Anthropic’s customer growth numbers?

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paxys 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Every use case of every customer doesn’t need more intelligence. I’m willing to bet that the vast majority will be perfectly fine running on “low intelligence” at a cheap price forever.

	▲	theptip 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I for sure agree that plenty of current use-cases are solvable by non-frontier models. However, you said “new versions with features that nobody asked for”, and I would prefer that you concede the point before shifting to arguing a new point. What customers are asking for is smarter models. Because the tasks that only smarter models can solve are higher value, higher margin, than the tasks that non-frontier models can solve.