Google makes AI cheaper
Google has a new AI plan. The plan is for people. The plan costs money. Now the plan costs less money. The old price is $7.99. The new price is $4.99. The plan has more storage. The storage is 200 gigabytes. Now the storage is 400 gigabytes. Google has other AI plans too. The plans are AI Pro and AI Ultra. People in the US can use the plan. Google sells the plan in India too. The India plan costs $4.60. That is from OpenAI. Google sells the plan in India for less than $5. A man talks about AI. His name is Chi-Hua Chien. He works at Goodwater Capital. He says AI is a product. Many companies sell AI. The price of AI is going down. That is like the web. The web made things cheap. Companies like Cisco and Oracle sold web things. Now those companies are not worth a lot. The same thing is happening to AI. Many companies make AI. The price will go down. Google has a big advantage. Google has many users. Google can bundle things. That is good for Google. Other AI companies may have a problem. The companies are OpenAI and Anthropic. They want to sell shares. But the price war is bad for them. People want cheap AI. The price war is coming to the US.
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What is the new price of Google AI Plus?
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“The plan costs money.”
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- 01“The price is low.”
- 02“The plan has more storage.”
- 03“It is cheap now.”
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The bus ticket costs less money on weekends.
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Google makes AI cheaper
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