Google cuts AI subscription price in the US
Google cut the price of its AI subscription plan. The plan is called Google AI Plus. It cost $7.99 per month. Now it costs $4.99 per month. Google also doubled the storage. Users got 200 gigabytes. Now they get 400 gigabytes. The change will happen over the next few days. Vikas Kansal talked about the change on X. He is the product lead for Gemini AI subscriptions. Google AI Plus started in January. It was the cheapest paid AI plan in the US. The plan includes video generation and NotebookLM. Users can also use Google Flow. Some users need more features. They can use AI Pro or AI Ultra. A venture capitalist named Chi-Hua Chien talked about the news. He works at Goodwater Capital. He said AI infrastructure is becoming a commodity. That means the price will go down over time. He compared it to the web era. Companies like Cisco and Oracle made web infrastructure. They were worth a lot. Now they are not worth a lot. The same thing will happen to AI. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will see their value go down. Google has a big advantage. It has many users and it can bundle products. The price war started in India. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go for $4.60 in August. Google followed with a sub-$5 plan in December. Now that price war is coming to the US. Anthropic did not follow. It does not have a budget plan in India or the US. It may have to change soon.
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Google cuts AI subscription price in the US
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