Hot take: users pay AI companies for models, not SaaS products
gefei55 · x · 2026-09-10
Blogger gefei55 argues that global users aren't really paying for AI SaaS products — they're paying for the underlying models: "if you have the model, people will pay you." He claims this insight is a money-making key but offers no concrete cases or data.
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