Ask HN: When will AI just be a free feature in most apps?

It will become "free" when some combination of the following happen:

a) it becomes [practically] free to run

b) advertising and/or subscriptions provide enough overhead to run the rest of it "for free" (see point (a))

AI is already free for a limited number of requests. In that sense free email style AI is already there.

I feel that's a bit like saying that you can only send and receive X number of emails, or only create X number of sticky notes in Miro. It's inherently prohibitive to the core idea of the product.

The good AI models that we have now are pretty expensive to run.