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MSFT directional thesis

AI breaks the old free software economics because every answer costs real money, so products will start charging users by how much computing they burn.

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“the previous sort of VC model... was you make a big upfront investment and then you amortize and you get to almost zero marginal cost. That's how software worked. That's not how AI works. The marginal cost is high and you need to cover it.”
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