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[rcjordan]

Gemini has slashed free API limits, here's what to use instead

https://www.howtogeek.com/gemini-slashed-free-api-limits-what-to-use-instead/

[ergophobe]

I don't know whether you were thinking of this, but this touches on one of the big questions in AI.

Are AI models gas stations and airlines or are the search engines and e-commerce sites?

Gas stations and airlines compete on price. They have to go through all manner of gymnastics to get the tiniest bit of customer loyalty and mostly fail. Rewards cards. Sky Miles. All that BS. And yet, if Chevron gives me $0.10 off with a rewards card and the Valero across the street is $0.12 cheaper, sorry Chevron. Yeah, I have some miles on American, but the United flight gets me in two hours earlier. Sorry American.

We all remember when search engines were more like airlines. We had no loyalty. Then Google. I at least didn't think Amazon could become a giant because other retailers were just one click away. How could they keep people loyal? Unlike the airlines, not only are people loyal, Amazon managed to create a loyalty program that you pay to join.

This article highlights that right now it feels like search circa 1997. Was Infoseek better than Ask Jeeves? Very hard to tell. Offer me the tiniest incentive and I will switch.

The question is, what would it take for AI to become like search circa 2025? And is that likely to happen?

The problem for AI is that they are going the paid subscription model rather than strip mining your attention to sell to advertisers. That means that competition from the slightly inferior but vastly cheaper Chinese models is going to create a major headwind.

Easy way for China to attack the US economy: release their AI models open weight. Oh wait, they already did that. Uh oh

[ergophobe]

Definitely feeling like airlines

https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-best-chinese-open-weight-models

[rcjordan]

>thinking

No, this...

The Millennial Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive
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