Microsoft's Copilot Pricing Shift Is a Reminder That AI Has Real Costs

[Revenant]

Compute isn't free, it was just hidden

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The business model phase of AI has begun.

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Growth first, profits later... now it's later.

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AI tools are becoming utilities instead of experiments.

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Token pricing was inevitable as usage exploded.

[GummyBear]

Investors funded the hype, users fund the future.

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The AI gold rush is entering its monetization era

[ChewBeast]

Turns out generating millions of lines of code isn't cheap

[JanEmil]

If we could get less AI slop around it would be fantastic.

[Melissa Way]

The end of flat-rate AI is here—shifting GitHub Copilot to token pricing shows that subsidized growth is giving way to actual compute profitability.