OpenAI’s $8 Plan & Ads Generate $5B/Year—But Can It Fund $1.4T AI Infrastructure? Anthropic, Meta, and Confer AI Redefine the Race.
TL;DR
* OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT free tier with $8/month 'Go' plan to monetize 800M users while committing $1.4T to AI infrastructure
* Anthropic deprecates 'ultrathink' and unlocks 64K output models with MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=63,999 to enhance Claude Code's