YOU DO EVERYTHING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. WHAT IF TOMORROW IT COST FIFTY TIMES MORE?
You do everything with artificial intelligence. What if tomorrow it cost 50 times more? You do everything with AI. Quotes, social posts, client emails, contracts, draft code, customer care, the month-end number. Today, the cheap plan costs $8 a month, the professional one $200. And imagine for a second they turned into $500 or $5,000. What do you do? Stop? Sure about that? Stopping would be like crossing a country in a horse carriage because petrol got expensive.
I know, it sounds remote, but it really isn’t. Stay with me, because there are two tsunamis behind the door. The first one is blocks. On June 12th this year, the US Department of Commerce cut off its two most advanced models from any foreign national. And the other side of the world does the same thing. Italy was the first to block DeepSeek, this time over privacy. Then came Australia, Taiwan, South Korea and India. All of them blocking or limiting foreign AI. And what if they blocked the AI you work with? The one you built your whole operation on?
And then the second tsunami at the door: the stock market. After years of funding investment, it’s starting to ask for profit. And prices go up when the seller knows we would struggle to leave, because the big players are carrying costs far higher than what they charge us. And they’re losing money. For now it’s fine, it buys customers. But what if investors get tired of it and want to see profits? We would need a plan B. Do you have a plan B?
Because if the two tsunamis come through the door, what do you do? Pay $5,000 a month for what today costs you between $8 and $200? So a plan B is not utopia. We can run open models on our own machines. Of course at home the cost might make no sense, but for a company not doing it, it’s dangerous. Local models also keep confidential data, and we hand AI plenty of it. It never walks out of the company door, no need to close the accounts with the big providers. We need to know which processes must never stop and keep those in-house. And in two years, you’ll be one of the few still standing. What do you think?
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