“If that’s the case, then OpenAI has to raise prices. Also, Microsoft has to raise prices. And that will likely spook those who have gotten used to these subsidized prices — which I discussed in The Subprime AI Crisis a few weeks ago — and they’ll start to disentangle themselves from generative AI.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
If OpenAI is underpricing to scale, OpenAI and Microsoft will have to raise prices, which will likely drive customers away from generative AI.
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Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, OpenAI Is A Bad Business, paragraph 115.
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- if OpenAI is deliberately underpricing its models to scale (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- if OpenAI is deliberately underpricing its models to scale
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: Where's Your Ed At, OpenAI Is A Bad Business
If that’s the case, then OpenAI has to raise prices. Also, Microsoft has to raise prices. And that will likely spook those who have gotten used to these subsidized prices — which I discussed in The Subprime AI Crisis a few weeks ago — and they’ll start to disentangle themselves from generative AI.
- Where
- paragraph 115
- Published
- 2024-10-02
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- , live page
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- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-oai-business-459d35-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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