alt Hacker News”The company reports over 900 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, though only about 50 million of those are paid subscribers.”
With so many free models available the ai companies are going to struggle to convert active free users to paid.
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JimTheMan • yesterday at 11:13 PM
None of the free models offer anything even remotely close to the output you can get on a relatively inexpensive model.
I think that AI is going to become just another utility people pay to stay relevant. Same as their internet, electricity or gas.
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whalesalad • today at 1:34 AM
Crazy that they have 50 _million_ paying subscribers and are still losing money.
They won't try to. ChatGPT is already starting with ads, which is potentially far more profitable (as evidenced by the fact that the most profitable company of all time makes 90%+ of their revenue through ads).