alt Hacker NewsOne month I could use Github Copilot fully with no disruptions. The next month, after pricing changes, I’ve run out of tokens in two days.
Such drastic changes tell me that pricing of tokens is arbitrary, and AI business is running out of money fast.
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altmanaltman • today at 12:41 PM
The github example is also a bit of an outlier because they made a recent change to their pricing so that's why its such a drastic jump.
Also I mean prices in generally for all things are based on underlying factors, that doesn't make them arbitary (i.e. github executives using a random number generator for token pricing would be arbitary)
I think it's more a consequence of pushing for the biggest valuation/IPO. Rumoured profits on inference are north of 70%.
Taking SpaceX as an example, they have increased prices across all their consumer products over the past six months. But they definitely aren't short on money with Alphabet and Anthropic combined paying them over $2 billion per month.
Microsoft/GitHub lost out here as they were just repacking other people's products.