Consumer AI has become a game of who can afford to give away the most compute
omooretweets · x · 2026-09-25
- Consumer AI is in an interesting spot because model COGS are very high.
- Yet most people still cannot or will not pay for software.
- So winning mainstream usage is essentially a game of "who can bear to give away the most compute for free."
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