AI Games
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Lai: AI games will approximate inference costs via virtual currency
“And so you can imagine a similar thing happening with AI games where you have some measure of the influence cost for players, and that's approximated by a virtual currency inside the game.”
Lai: Subscriptions will become default business model for AI games
“My guess is that companies like mid journey or care, like character AI have been able to address this with a subscription model. And so basically every power user pays for their own sort of like inference costs, so to speak. And we could see that subscription …”
Lai: Cloud inference costs break traditional gaming monetization models
“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, …”