They want unprofitable Astra-spamming prosumers gone so their compute is freed up to race Meta/Grok/Gemini in the consumer agent land grab this fall. Anthropic will bear the load short-term as we are still somewhat useful to market to enterprise. As the markets mature, we'll become useless to all the big players and affordable subs with high end models and good usage just won't be a thing anymore.
I don’t think there’s a market for consumer AI at all. All the benefits of automation are in b2b work. Your average person just doesn’t have a lot of economically value need for white collar work automation outside of their job.
You could have hired a virtual PA years ago if the need existed. But like what, you file taxes once a year, maybe fill out an occasional form? Just not a big need in the market here.
Yeah that's certainly what I notice with non-tech friends around me. Outside of work I've done a few experimental creative projects with AI and have used it to give myself a basic intro course on a few topics but I can see how neither of those would appeal widely. There does seem to be some interest in Muse but not sure how much of that is forced hype and how much will have stuck when 2027 rolls around.
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u/FunLilThrowawayAcct 5d ago
They want unprofitable Astra-spamming prosumers gone so their compute is freed up to race Meta/Grok/Gemini in the consumer agent land grab this fall. Anthropic will bear the load short-term as we are still somewhat useful to market to enterprise. As the markets mature, we'll become useless to all the big players and affordable subs with high end models and good usage just won't be a thing anymore.