@omooretweets: We're in a really interesting place in consumer AI right now because model COGS are so high ...and yet most people stil…
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The tweet discusses the dilemma in consumer AI where high model costs and users' unwillingness to pay for software turn mainstream adoption into a competition over free compute resources.
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We’re in a really interesting place in consumer AI right now because model COGS are so high
…and yet most people still cannot pay for software
So getting mainstream usage is essentially a game of “who can bear to give away the most compute for free”
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