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The Financial Basis of AI Can We still Afford AI?

By Ralf Steck | Translated by AI 7 min Reading Time

AI seems to be on a seemingly unstoppable rise—and most of it is free. But someone will have to foot the bill—will we still be able to afford AI in the future?

The massive AI industry surrounding Project Stargate is worth billions of dollars, but it also poses significant risks.(Image: Gemini / AI-generated)
The massive AI industry surrounding Project Stargate is worth billions of dollars, but it also poses significant risks.
(Image: Gemini / AI-generated)

We’ve all been there—we don’t Google anymore; we ask the AI. The “ChatGPT moment” on November 30, 2022, when OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT 3.5 to the public, changed all of our lives in an instant. 1 million users in 5 days, 100 million users in 2 months—that shows the momentum ChatGPT generated. Yet the first AI models had already become available earlier: DALL-E 2 in April, Midjourney in July, and Stable Diffusion in August 2022. They sparked a frenzy and a major debate that continues to this day.

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