When will AI be priced at its true cost?

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Summary

The article questions why AI services are priced low to foster dependency and competition, and explores when true cost pricing might emerge for real profitability.

For years, we’ve been hearing that the cost of using AI/tokens is kept deliberately low to make people dependent on them and to drive competition, before setting a true price to ensure real profitability. Why hasn’t this happened yet? When is it likely to happen?
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