I do wonder if they become another category like voice assistants where people just expect to get them free as part of an existing ecosystem.
Or search/social media where people are happy to pay $0 to use it in exchange for ads.
Sure some people are paying now, but its nowhere near the cost of operating these models, let alone developing them.
Also the economics may not accrue to the parts of the stack people think. What if the model is commodity and the real benefits accrue to the GOOG/AAPL/MSFT of the world that integrate models, or to the orgs that gatekept their proprietary data properly and now can charge for querying it?
Or search/social media where people are happy to pay $0 to use it in exchange for ads.
Sure some people are paying now, but its nowhere near the cost of operating these models, let alone developing them.
Also the economics may not accrue to the parts of the stack people think. What if the model is commodity and the real benefits accrue to the GOOG/AAPL/MSFT of the world that integrate models, or to the orgs that gatekept their proprietary data properly and now can charge for querying it?