After two weeks of AI announcements from Alphabet, Open AI, and now Microsoft, one thing is becoming clear.

Competition is fiercer than ever. The monetization picture, though, still unclear, and that is the topic of today's

Tech Check with Deirdre Bosa.

Morning, D.

Hey, good morning Carl.

So Gen AI companies were only seeing them just beginning to price their products.

This potential of a price word that could shake confidence in their ability to monetize billions of dollars in investments,

but that is actually what we're seeing in China.

Over the last few weeks, its largest tech companies have kicked off a race to the bottom in Gen AI. It started with

TikTok parent bite dance. It introduced a chatbot that costs less than

most competitors and quickly jumped to the top of download charts. Then

Alibaba answered back by slashing the fee for its

Gen AI models by up to 97%. Hours later Baidu said it would offer free

services based on its Ernie AI models. And we aren't seeing that kind of Gen AI price war

here in America, but there are signs

that the competition is heating up price-wise.

When Open AI launched GPT for a last week,

it gave non-paying users faster speeds more features

Sam Altman in a blog post writing a key part of our mission is to put very

capable AI tools in the hands of people for free or at a great price. Essentially he said

that they will find plenty of things to charge for putting scale ahead of

profitability. Now a day later Google rolled out its AI overviews. This is a slim down version of its

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