Google hat im Preiskampf um KI-Abonnements gerade einen Warnschuss abgefeuert
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Google hat im Preiskampf um KI-Abonnements gerade einen Warnschuss abgefeuert
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
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All the money to be made is in the enterprise and business space: that’s where the bulk of inference is happening. There’s very little to be had comparatively in the consumer space unfortunately.
I have friends at FAANG and F500 companies where a single software engineer’s AI spend is six figures per month. And that’s just dev tooling, not taking into account all the product and infrastructure related inference companies are consuming for their own AI products and features.
They need paid subscription numbers to go up so bad.
The biggest normal person AI boosters I know answer „zero“ to the monthly amount they would pay for the service.
I have been messing with LLMs on my personal machine with LM studio. It can do the majority of what I need it to do without having to provide all of my personal info.
I have no idea why you would pay for one of these subs outside of a few niche functions.
95% of people would be perfectly fine with the free or local options.
>The company announced Monday that it is cutting the monthly price of Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 — while doubling the storage included at that tier, from 200 gigabytes to 400 gigabytes.
Will other AI companies follow suit? Is this the beginning of the AI pricing wars?
Dang, is Flash so far in the rearview mirror that you can now name your AI-slop animation tool *Flash* without raising eyebrows??
So if I don’t pay for this can I obliterate ‚AI mode‘ from my search results?
It’s to save the work force and keep the economy going. Curb the demand. Token prices bout to go stellar?
I’ll sub if they make a $35-$50 YouTube premium/AI Pro/Nest Premium bundle
I’m a complete moron, been losing for the 1Tb for live an year before I realized it’s not this plan. I’ve been using only 3% of that 1Tb. Instant switch!
Isn’t that how the enshittification starts? Operate at a loss
The reason Google is losing is because their product ecosystem is so fucking confusing. There are 9000 AI product under a different name for each tool that lives in its own app or website. They need to consolidate these things into 1 tool, like 1 meta-AI that knows how to use these various AI tools itself. So you ask it a question or give it a task and it goes and figures out what to use to accomplish the task and just gives you the result. I don’t know what ½ of their tools do. Flow, spark, studio, etc etc etc.
Still shows $7.99 for plus but the storage is 400 GB. When will the new price take effect?
The biggest warning shot to me was cutting my credits by 80%. I regularly exceed the limit on a daily basis (no coding) so I cancelled my subscription
How much do I have to pay, to not use AI?
the reason why internet worked is that it is free. You dont pay for using the search bar. AI is a glorified search bar, you really cant get people to pay for this kind of service. pay for searching??
I pay for AI, but I avoid the Frontier Model Forum companies (Meta, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic), and of course XAI, because they are all lobbying extremely hard to take away your rights to *force* you to use their services while removing competition.
Using other models like DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi K2.6 works just as well, costs less, and doesn’t require you to be on a subscription plan.
Basically the only objections would be jingoistic based fear mongering, meanwhile the actual US AI corporations put far more effort into conversation steering and opinion policing to push for pro oligarch perspectives.
That’s.great and all, but can you get do that for YouTube instead
Before GitHub Copilot moved to token based billing I used to exhaust my quota of premium requests one or two days before the end of the month. Sometimes I only used a fraction of the quota by the end of the month. With the new system I used 87% of the allocated credits on the first day, and this was a day when I was mostly in meetings instead of actively coding. The next day my first prompt did not even complete before I ran out of credits. Nothing my employer currently offers comes close to my token usage, so now I barely use my coding agent unless it is absolutely necessary or use the cheapest model I can find which always costs at least 2 to 5 dollars per session. Welcome back to the old days of googling stuff (alternatively, using Google’s AI mode in the browser also works).
Now it’s $1.99 for the first 3 months.. and $4.99 after that
You would need to pay for this if you want more storage. This price change is for investors so Google can claim they received a 10x increase in paid Al users, but people just want to store more pictures and videos on the Drive
So will they increase the prices too ?!!
The F… I paid the annual fee.
The only reason I would get that plan is for the added storage.
Token system is like broadband internet to companies long time ago. They did pay internet/ data moved. That’s not gonna work. Need to be unlimited. No tokens at all.
I asked Gemini yesterday to scan my files and delete duplicates. Something I’d expect an AI tool to be able to do and the type of intelligent functionality I’d pay for. It said that it could not do it.
I thought ai would have taken over by now. Hmm
It’s useful for day to day AI queries with the family sharing. Kids, grandparents level kind of usage.