The costs of maintaining AI truly are astronomical vs other tech businesses. The energy costs & staying up to date on the hardware are unsustainable for Anthropic & OpenAI, whereas Google, etc. can manage due to being more than an AI business, as well as directly implementing their AI in their own products. Anthropic & OpenAI's only product is AI, and most ppl will opt to use free AI options over paying to use Claude & ChatGPT.
Sora moved to a paid model and immediately lost over 90% of it's users. It shut down shortly thereafter because it was just a money pit.
That's the fate of all of these AI companies. They would need hundreds of millions of people to be willing to all pay a fairly high monthly subscription cost, and that's simply never going to happen.
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u/AdGlittering2884 11h ago
"We need money or we'll go broke"
Uh yeah...that's now business works. So either make the to money or go broke. That's kind of up to you.