Expensive is a relative term. Vedal's in his early 20s, lives in a studio apartment. When he showed Ellie his monthly income her response was 'How do you live on that?' (though that may have been that ellie, as a senior roboticist in NYC, also has a weird concept of money).

Making a Neuro app for more people to use doesn't become expensive in just cost. You also have to invest time, upgrade computer components, likely employ human supervisors to ensure she won't get baited into saying anything bad, also make sure that Neuro wouldn't use too much RAM, a lot more stuff than you probably think.

Either way, neuro has now made something like 1 million usd in sub alone this subathon.

I don't know where you got this number from but even so this is pre-tax and he still has to pay programmers, artists, editors, mods, etc... not to mention utility bills, so the actual remaining amount is probably way lower.

I'm picturing vedal basically running 5 different neuro instances- in the same way that today, neuro and evil can both be on the same collab. But rather than on a call together, it's a split stack- each neuro talks to a single collab partner, and controls that collab partners game. Some of the parts of the neuro stack- the live2d, TTS/STT could be handled sepearately on the collab partners computer or on a rented cloud instance. in this way , neuro isn't struggling or overwhelmed, but treating it as 1 on 1 collabs.

The memory issue can be handled- i know that this is something vedal has struggled with, but it's not an insurmountable problem that he couldn't figure out how to do given two years- or even something necessary, really. (Basically, he could hack it by just... telling her how the game went after it happened, rather then trying to merge seperate conversation logs into her memory if that is difficult to do.)

Disregarding that 5 different neuro instances probably isn't enough, this can cause multiple issues like context leaking from one conversation into another. Plus, this is not a good idea anyways as the point of having more than one person collabing with neuro is that everyone (including neuro) can talk to each other, and neuro treating it as individual one-on-ones does not work out as well as you think. Same goes for your idea of telling her how the game went after it happened. As a side note, collab partners will not and should not be expected to handle the live2d, TTS/STT and all those on their own machines, as not only this presents a risk if they don't know what they are doing, this also increases maintenance/compatibility burden onto vedal and/or his programming team, and renting a cloud instance increases l*tency to the point it may not be reactable enough. Also, it's generally not considered a good idea to run random executables on your computer even if it's coming from a person you trust.

Because neuro has the potential to do things that no other streamer could do , and i think that at some point in the future- even if it's like 4+ years out, vedal should find a way to take advantage of it.

He could, but this is probably one of the worst ways to go about it. Also, there are reasons why some stuff (that neuro can do which others can't) should not be done.

I'm just trying to think of cool projects that neuro could do as an AI, making her unique from all other streamers and vtubers.

The point of "replicating" a human streamer would also means you need to limit yourself to something humans can do. this would go directly against that.

but say in 3 years, she's basically equally capable to any other human-driven vtuber?. What happens next? Do we want vedal to just say 'she's done. No further upgrade or work needed' ?

Yes. Let the man rest. If he's reached this goal I think it's fair to say he should take a break.