$200 plans are just a preview: analyst predicts frontier models will go API-only
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-17
Stewart Alsop III argues the two foundational labs have habituated users into accepting that $200/month subscriptions are a tiny preview of state-of-the-art models (e.g. Astra quota gone in a day or two). He expects future frontier releases to be API-only, justified as 'too dangerous' for consumers, and hopes China and NVIDIA can expose this as a bad strategy aimed at a government-sanctioned monopoly.
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