Artificial intelligence is becoming more expensive, and businesses are beginning to reconsider their use of the disruptive technology. After ChatGPT appeared on the market, AI businesses followed a well-worn Silicon Valley script and paid rock-bottom costs to attract clients.Artificial intelligence is becoming more expensive, and businesses are beginning to reconsider their use of the disruptive technology.
Kevin Simback of startup incubator Delphi Labs refers to it as the period of “subsidised intelligence,” which means that investors were literally footing the tab so that companies could deliver AI at a low cost. However, the tides are turning, Simback cautioned, and an era in which huge AI businesses must really generate money has begun, with leaders OpenAI and Anthropic planning to go public and attract mainstream investors later this year.
Unlike chatbots, which simply answer queries, agents book appointments, develop programming, and handle files. And they’re expensive to run because a single job can activate dozens of agents all at once, each incurring expenses. These charges are measured in tokens, which are the main unit of measurement used by AI companies to bill clients. A single agent-powered task can consume dozens of times more tokens than a standard chat post.
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