OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model , letting developers submit a prompt and receive a price for the work, before negative customer feedback convinced the company to back away from the idea, CEO Sam Altman says. The flat-fee pricing idea Speaking Thursday with Stripe President John Collison on the Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman recalls that OpenAI “almost made a very — what would’ve been a bad call” to stop pricing its next model in tokens altogether, moving instead to an arrangement where a developer hands over a prompt and OpenAI hands back a price. The billing...

Source: The New Stack