A couple of days ago it leaked that OpenAI was planning on launching new pricing for their AI Agents

It's pretty funny that OpenAI wants to sell access to a "PhD level" model at a price with which you can hire like 3-5 real human PhDs full-time.

Thats some rather eyewatering pricing, considering you could probably roll your own model these days.

Even worse: AFAIK there's no reason to believe that the $20k/mo or $10k/mo pricing will actually make them money. Those numbers are just thought balloons being floated. Of course $10k/mo sounds like a lot of inference, but it's not yet clear how much inference will be required to approximate a software developer--especially in the context of maintaining and building upon an existing codebase over time and not just building and refining green field projects.

It's bizarre. These are the pricing setups that you'd see for a military-industrial contract. They're just doing it out in the open

Now that OAI has "PhD level" agents, I assume they're largely scaling back recruitment?

Do you have a source for these supposed leaks? Those prices don't sound even remotely credible and I can't find anything on HN in the past week with the keywords "openai leak".

There is too little to go on, but they could already have trial customers and testimonials lined up. Actually demoing the product will probably work better than just having a human-less signup process, considering the price. They could also just be trying to cash in on FOMO and their success and reputation so far, but that would paint a bleak picture

Never come close to breaking even? You can now get a GPT-4 class model for 1-2% of what it cost when they originally released it. They’re going to drive this even further down with the amount of CAPEX pouring into AI / data centers. It’s pretty obvious that’s their plan when they serve ChatGPT at a “loss”.