Ask HN: Will cheap high-quality AI end this December?

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OpenAI will no longer have the (apparently) unrestricted high-quality chat mode in the Plus subscription.

Of course, maybe the high-quality chat mode is already limited in an invisible way to the user and the change coming this December would mostly make it visible and perhaps not much more limited than it is now.

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IMO it will be after the bubble pop - so no. Because I feel the current market activity is just a correction and not the start of the pop.

I think we got another couple years before the actual pop which will see some of the current players fall to 0.01% of current valuations. I mean, most of the AI-only providers are literally insolvent at the moment. And it will be after the pop that players start charging a profitable rate which will see even more stagnation in the area that we should expect in a post-pop market.

Qwen3.8-flash-next is cheap high quality AI.

YALL sniffing your own farts.

Agreed, there are a lot of cheap, high quality in the open-weight world.

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