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I'm really surprised they don't charge a very high price with a generous free tier, and then have an army of salespeople who will offer you whatever discount is necessary to make your business model work.

If you want to use GPT-3 to build an AI-lawyer, it'll be very expensive... but to build a tool for customer support for walmart will be cheap, etc.

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Do they need an army of salespeople, or just a finely tuned GPT-3 bot?

The OpenAI CEO Sama is primarily an investor, not an operator, so the model is tuned towards giving small companies an opportunity versus enticing enterprise customers. Sama want somebody to figure out how to run & productive his business versus actual customers. In particular because of efforts like Stable Diffusion—- it’s going to be a lot easier for enterprise to build off tech that’s actually Open.

If your looking for a free teir that allways is there checkout https://text-generator.io which has 100 free requests a month. The free their really helps people get started with it or run demos etc without needing to commit to anything

making things cheap encourages experimentation and paradoxically increases total spend

hence the generous free tier. You want it to be big enough for a team of developers to do all the experimentation and development work, and also to launch a product to a small audience.

As soon as your product is a success, you run out of free tier, and you will have to negotiate a price with the sales team.

If I were OpenAI, then while I had a market leading product, the price would be 'I want half the profit margin of whatever you're using it for'.

> If I were OpenAI, then while I had a market leading product, the price would be 'I want half the profit margin of whatever you're using it for'.

This degenerates to Oracle's "how much is your data worth to you" pricing model.

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