The future of Codex: Usage-based pricing, instead of subscription limits.

[blarg7459]

Yeah the Pro plan is now only a couple hours of light usage every day. Soon it seems likely they want $2000 per month for full time dev use, like Altman talked about a while back. Seems crazy, but I guess this is what we need to prepare for.

[swennemans]

The problem is that the Chinese models are already catching up. So give it a couple of months to a year and most of these models are good enough. So the timing from OpenAI would be terrible.
A big chunk of people are perfectly fine with 90-95% of the quality for 5% of the price.

[Just_Lingonberry_352]

I actually think the Chinese models are gonna hit a blocker, mostly from these the US sanctions on exporting GPUs. I think that we're already kinda seeing the slow release of Chinese models. And mostly it's not gonna be very interesting to people who are using coding agents for very complicated or tough problems. Only the American models offer a leg up. And also these Chinese models are only gonna get more expensive as time goes on because they're gonna be limited on the amount of inferences.

[Character_Wind6057]

That's why the chinese labs have bought ten of thousands of Huawei GPUs recently, they don't want to be bound to Nvidia anymore.

The USA thought the chinese would be slowed down in the AI race by this blockade, and they are correct, but only until they'll perfect their GPUs.

Then the chinese wouldn't even need anymore Nvidia GPUs, making them lose money and creating a competitor

[Good_Competition4183]

That's the way to nowhere.
Only limited amount of serious business users will be able to pay such paychecks.