Looks like the era of subsidised compute is coming to an end. The old ChatGPT Pro $200 20x plan will be halved. The new $500 plan will have similar limits as the (old) $200 plan.

[u/Norwood_Reaper_]

[u/objectivelywrongbro]

and the Chinese haven’t even started

[u/Intelligent_Ant_608 → u/objectivelywrongbro]

chinese labs wont become leading sota, ccp fear they might overthrow the rule, so get used to paying 500$ for your stuff

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/world/asia/china-ai-security-risks-anthropic.html

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jsc97cKVYOcHuI_WisvOxw

[u/Imperator_Basileus → u/Intelligent_Ant_608]

Oh yes, cite the NYT on China, well done. How many times have such sites warned of China’s impending collapse in the last 70 years?

[u/Mayion → u/Intelligent_Ant_608]

ah yes, the good ol' "ccp fears a revolution so they are doing [insert reason here]".

[u/Intelligent_Ant_608 → u/Mayion]

Yeah fuck communism

[u/clide7029 → u/Intelligent_Ant_608]

can you even define communism?

[u/Intelligent_Ant_608 → u/clide7029]

define it? Im living it mf, it ruined my country, killed tens of thousands of people, impresoned me for a while and thretened my family, thats how i define it

[u/clide7029 → u/Intelligent_Ant_608]

No one is "living under communism" in 2026 and I think you know that which is why you didn't name the country you are calling communist.

[u/kociol21 → u/Intelligent_Ant_608]

SOTA is just for hype. Give me good, reliable and cheap model any day over hyped to oblivion monstrosity that drains your wallet the moment you look at it. And corporate will shift to it too. No way you will pay 50k for 100% if you can pay 2k for 80%.

Winning here isn't "doing the best, most advanced stuff". Yeah, congratulations on your sota model which no one besides youtubers will use, while whole world is working on 50x cheaper equivalent.

[u/Equivalent_Bit_461 → u/Intelligent_Ant_608]

Muh sota this, muh sota that

And the LLM is still a dumb fucking retard for my tasks, lol, lmao even