The ugly economics of consumer AI

Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and the $10B-valued Instinct suggest a consumer AI comeback, yet frontier labs keep shifting toward Anthropic-style enterprise contracts. Consumers' willingness to pay is plateauing, and better models may not yield more profitable consumer businesses.

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