| ▲ | weinzierl 2 hours ago |
| As exciting as it sounds, but "As a constraint, a GA designer should aim at a system which costs, as of mid-2026, >$1,000⧸month" will make this an elite tool for the privileged. I don't even disagree with the premise that people are shocked if something costs no matter how much value it delivers, nor do I suggest they should make it cheaper. It is just the realization that AI will accelerate the widening of the gap between the poor and the rich even more and there is probably nothing we can do about it. |
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| ▲ | wmf 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 2026: $1,000/month 2027: $100/month 2028: $10/month |
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| ▲ | rchaud an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Just because the hardware and inference costs may decrease in the future doesn't mean prices will. The AI vendor market is the furthest thing from a competitive industry where there are limited barriers to entry and new market entrants exert downward pressure on prices and profit margins. Every single company in this market is losing billions on this business, and the only way to make it back is to acquire paying customers at a loss and jack up prices later. | | |
| ▲ | wmf 36 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Since Guardian Angel is an inference vendor [1] hopefully they will set sustainable prices from day one so they don't need to increase prices later. [1] The announcement explains that they can't use APIs for privacy reasons. | | |
| ▲ | KerrAvon 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They don't control that. Pricing is controlled by the question of when RAM is once again made of semiconductors instead of unobtainium. |
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| ▲ | weinzierl an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Hopefully! | |
| ▲ | KerrAvon 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | this is not how it's going to go if OpenAI and Anthropic get their way and the US outlaws use of open-weight models |
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| ▲ | jey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Obviously the costs will come down over time. And quickly. |
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| ▲ | greyface- 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The future isn't evenly distributed. |
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| ▲ | ks2048 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You’re assuming this $1000/mo will buy you something useful. |
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| ▲ | problemsolver9 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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