Paid plans with OpenAI/Anthropic are subsidized by VC capital - users can use more inference than what they pay for, because OAI/Anthropic use this as a growth subsidy. OTOH, @AskVenice makes its paid plans work on sustainable unit economics today. As we saw with Uber, once the VC money subsidy runs out, frontier labs will be forced to raise prices or tighten usage Venice's financial prudence today could become a growth catalyst tomorrow.