Households will pay for energy, not AI: last year's models are already commodities
ns123abc · x · 2026-10-04
Blogger ns123abc argues that households will ultimately pay for electricity, not for AI itself.
His reasoning: models from just a year ago are already commodities, and basic home automation doesn't need frontier intelligence anyway. As intelligence keeps getting cheaper with each generation, the binding cost for consumers shifts to energy rather than model access.
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