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Why AI pricing is broken
Because the exact same prompt rarely generates the exact same answer twice, tech companies cannot easily predict the computational cost of a single query. This creates a headache for businesses trying to budget for artificial intelligence, turning what should be simple software subscriptions into a guessing game of unpredictable expenses.
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