SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
This is their strategy, they want people to use it, get hooked, replace parts of their day-to-day life with it, make it to difficult to “just go back”, then hit them with the actual bill.
They won’t go bankrupt unless their backers walk, and their backers are still quite confident in this strategy… because it’s working.
This is their strategy, they want people to use it, get hooked, replace parts of their day-to-day life with it, make it to difficult to “just go back”, then hit them with the actual bill.
They won’t go bankrupt unless their backers walk, and their backers are still quite confident in this strategy… because it’s working.
But no one is going to be able to afford a $14,000 subscription for slop.