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I wonder who will be the first to bite the bullet and try charging different rates for LLM inference depending on whether it's for commercial purposes. Enforcement would be a nightmare but they'd probably try to throw AI at that as well, successfully or not.

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I think there are always creative ways to differentiate the two tiers for those who care.

“Free tier users relinquish all rights to their (anonymized) queries, which may be used for training purposes. Enterprise tier, for $200/mo, guarantees queries can only be seen by the user”

This would be great for open source projects

This is what Google currently does for access to their top models.

AI Studio (web UI, free, will train on your data) vs API (won’t train on your data).

Can't train on my data if all my data is produced by them.

If you use the API for free the data is used for training.

The bigger commercial / enterprise differentiator will probably be around audit and guardrails.

Unnecessary for individual use; required for scaled corporate use.

The SSO premium of the AI era

Features are better price segmenters than utilization.

> guarantees queries can only be seen by the user

The only way to "guarantee" that is to run your models locally on your own hardware.

I'm guessing we'll see a renaissance of the "desktop" and "workstation" cycle once this AI bubble pops. ("Cloud" will be the big loser.)

probably the idea behind the coding tools eventually. cursor charges a 20% margin on every token for their max models but people still use them

I think the real problem is that is even an option. I am not a good businessman, but i have seen good ideas fail because the company depends upon the good graces of another company. If someone can decide to just fuck you over for any reason, it will happen sooner or later

Sending all your core IP through another company for them to judge your worthiness of existence, is a nightmare on so many levels , the biggest example being payment processors trying to impose their religious doctrine on entire populations

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