Google’s Duet AI is now available in Gmail, Docs, and more for $30 a month

That’s incredibly expensive, and is just going to drive people to explore local LLMs. I’d be curious to understand how the feed in costs marry up, as I’d normally expect initial pricing to be at a loss?

I'm dense and obviously not the target audience -but I'm assuming the target audience posts here?

So I figure this would be the right place to ask: what is the use for this -particularly in gmail? Docs I guess I can understand but that's about it.

What makes this worth $30/month?

It's all dependent on performance. $30/month is actually really low if it works well.

If an employee costs $300k/yr fully loaded, then they only need to save ~15 minutes per month to break even (At $150k/yr per employee, its still breakeven at 1 minute saved per day)

It's not that different to superhuman.com charging $30/mo for an email client.

$30 gets you access to not just email, but docs.

currently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306530 and also the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html wants original sources, not some rando site's take on the matter