Seibert: AI will be commoditized quickly without disrupting existing software pricing
Jeff Seibert · The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 24, 2023 · at 17:36
Jeff Seibert, Founder & CEO of Digits, pushes back against the panel, arguing AI is an underlying tool that will be commoditized within years without disrupting existing industry pricing norms.
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“So this may be just me, but I very much see AI as a tool, not a product. And so it's a technology. It's like your database. It's like Memcash back in the day, and so because of that, I don't think it'll change how people price in specific industries. Like, if your market does Percy pricing, that'll probably stay. If your business and product does consumption pricing, that'll probably stay, and you'll have to work that into how you use the AI. I think it'll be commoditized and seen as technology within a couple years.”
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