Some AI tools are getting dumber and more expensive

In recent weeks, AI companies have either tightened up or hiked prices on their subscription services—or throttled access to the systems they offer. GitHub paused new Copilot Pro signups in April while announcing it would move to a usage-based system from June 1. OpenAI has introduced a wider range of pricing tiers at different levels in order to try and better capture the different ways its products are used. And last month, Anthropic was forced to admit it had accidentally been serving users a cut-down version of Claude compared to the one they thought they were accessing because of an error introduced when trying to make their models more efficient. It’s all part of the challenges AI labs face in keeping up with demand, and tackling what’s already considered to have been a highly subsidized product. Nvidia, which develops the lion’s share of the chips powering the AI revolution, says that AI can now cost more than human workers. Caption from article by Chris Stokel-Walker, Inc.com.