Lai: Cloud inference costs break traditional gaming monetization models
Jonathan Lai · 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai · Dec 16, 2023 · at 17:30
a16z General Partner Jonathan Lai discusses how ongoing cloud inference costs for LLM-driven games conflict with existing pricing structures.
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“The challenge is that with an AI game, if you have a game that's running a large language model in the cloud, the influence costs of serving users dynamically generated worlds or texts would probably make either of these models unprofitable right off the bat, right?”
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