The article argues the consumer AI agent race leaves prices unpublished by design, as four distinct architectures are each built to sidestep the payment problem. Apple folds the cost into hardware, pricing the Apple HomeView smart-home hub at $299 and the HomePod mini 2 at $149, while the earlier rumored price of roughly $350 is no longer treated as fact. The announcement also contains no enterprise features such as MDM, audit logging or SSO. xAI places Grok in The X Subscription tiers, from Plus at $8 to Ultra at $200, but GrokBot has no standalone price, and usage is expressed only as multiples of an unpublished base.
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