Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was "unsustainably high relative to revenue", following subscriber complaints regarding rapid usage limit depletion
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Agentic assistants with open-ended usage are exposing how brutal inference economics still are at scale. If you're shipping high-intensity agents, you need hard guardrails, tiering, and cost observability in place before growth, not after user backlash.
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