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@SplinterGoggles
Most models will run for free on local hardware in 10 years.
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@pmarcaposted on X
The pricing tiers for AGI are something like (1) $20/month, (2) $200/day = ~$75,000/year, (3) $1,000/day = ~$350,000/year, and (4) ~$10 billion. For now.
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Community Sentiment Analysis
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
Sentiment Distribution
64% Engaged
31% Positive
33% Negative
Positive
31%
Negative
33%
Neutral
36%
Key Takeaways
What the community is saying — both sides
Supporting
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Pricing ladders are the product:
tiers deliberately extract different rakes from each seat; the strategic play is to “survive tier 3 without needing tier 4,” and sellers will likely emulate ISPs by throttling and carving higher-priced tiers.
2
Price equals product category:
$20/month is a personal productivity tool; ~$200/day becomes “persistent labor” that runs while you sleep; $75k/yr+ is effectively replacing salaried roles; the UX and orchestration needs change radically across these bands.
3
Subscription → infrastructure mental shift:
once you move from a per-user fee to infrastructure-level spend, buying decisions, ops, and ROI thinking look nothing like consumer SaaS.
4
AGI creates new inequality layers:
a $10B tier looks like an aristocracy — exclusive intelligence buys strategic power and amplifies advantages unequally.
5
Frontier enterprise will be deeply automated:
expect multi-to-one digital-employee/human ratios (3:1–4:1), with scaling limited by compute costs and the engineering work to manage oversight and handoffs.
6
Tier sustainability is an economic question:
if users at lower tiers can use their AGI access to climb wealth and access, the tiered system may be unstable or collapse toward fewer tiers.
7
Vertical specialization wins in regulated domains:
healthcare shows how domain-specific infra and expertise (radiology, population health, genomics) will occupy higher-priced tiers that general models can’t easily displace.
8
Businesses haven’t priced AGI vs human labor properly:
few are doing the math to compare AGI costs with offshored employees, and token/compute economics will determine when replacement makes sense.
9
Market bets are mixed but predictable:
some expect prices to keep falling with model/hardware improvements; others expect providers to raise or ration access and for deep-pocket buyers (including intelligence agencies) to dominate top tiers.
Opposing
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AGI is a fantasy / not imminent
many replies argue current systems are far from general intelligence and that claims about AGI timelines are overblown.
2
Prices will collapse toward zero
local models, efficiency gains and self-replicating agents will commoditize intelligence and drive margins down.
3
AGI itself isn’t scarce — control is
the scarcity argument shifts from models to who controls access, deployment and use.
4
Hardware and infrastructure limit pricing
pricing is speculative: you can’t “API‑call” more intelligence into existence if hardware and capex hit physical limits.
5
Open-source and local / in‑house builds will win
many expect people and companies to run capable models locally or use Chinese/open variants rather than pay high subscriptions.
6
Current models still fail at practical tasks
real‑world examples (e.g., failing to handle an ERP import) are cited as evidence AGI-like reliability isn’t here yet.
7
Market dynamics will undercut paid tiers
parallels to social media: free competitors and undercutting keep most users from paying, collapsing premium business models.
8
Strong disagreement on short‑term pricing
some insist $200/month is a realistic floor now; others propose one‑time local fees, or say pricing is meaningless until capabilities change.
9
Conspiracy / secrecy hypothesis
a minority suggests an AGI might already exist privately, built to prevent concentration of control.
Top Reactions
Most popular replies, ranked by engagement
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@modernselfgth
AGI won’t replace people equally. It’ll amplify people unequally.
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@AlbertNonymous
Marc, can you give us an example of what someone might be doing that uses $1k/day?
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@brandonosborn24
Prices will will fall rapidly… models will commoditize… as they begin to recursively optimize themselves… then they will replicate themselves driving costs down even further… margins will approach zero
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@Dorizzdt
I will bet money, the sub sellers will reduce the usage pipe slowly for $200 down, then break off to a $500 tier and give the AS-IS usage we have right now back but higher premium. its exactly how the ISP industry played that game. the recipe is proven to work 😂
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@vbnospace
Sir ??? Where is the AGI you keep referencing ?
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