I thought the high API prices were because they expect AI companies to be willing to pay those big bucks. That seems stupid to me, but maybe they know something I don’t. If I were training AI, I’d want a firehose-like continuous feed, not a zillion API queries. Twitter sells (or used to sell) a firehose feed for basically that purpose, and it is/was quite expensive, and the AI and financial (sentiment analysis) crowds were willing to pay.
I thought the high API prices were because they expect AI companies to be willing to pay those big bucks. That seems stupid to me, but maybe they know something I don’t. If I were training AI, I’d want a firehose-like continuous feed, not a zillion API queries. Twitter sells (or used to sell) a firehose feed for basically that purpose, and it is/was quite expensive, and the AI and financial (sentiment analysis) crowds were willing to pay.