Why AI doesn’t mean the end of Freemium

It's a great time to be free.

I’ve been a Freemium fan forever. It’s the best. But LLMs are expensive, so does that mean freemium is dead? A lot of products seem to think so - locking every AI feature behind a paywall like it’s 2014 SaaS all over again.

But no, no. freemium isn’t dead. In AI, freemium has actually become the most rational irrational strategy we’ve got.