CCTV News: In the past two days, many domestic and foreign big model manufacturers have announced the opening of their big model services for free, which has attracted widespread attention from the industry.

Free and open source. Many manufacturers announced free and open use.

Baidu announced on February 13 that Wen Xin Yiyan will be fully free from 0:00 on April 1. All PC and APP users can experience its latest model, including ultra-long document processing, advanced AI painting, multilingual dialogue and other functions. On the same day, OpenAI also announced that the free version of ChatGPT will use GPT-5 to communicate without restrictions under standard intelligent settings. In addition, Google's latest artificial intelligence model suite has also recently announced that it is officially open to all users.

The business logic of the artificial intelligence model behind free

The free wave will aggravate the industry's reshuffle. If small and medium-sized manufacturers cannot bear the technical iteration costs required for long-term free, they may be forced to withdraw from the market, while leading companies will optimize the model through user data accumulation and feed back, forming a cycle of "technology upgrade-user growth-cost decline". Under this model, resources will be further concentrated in enterprises with computing power, data and capital advantages.

How does the artificial intelligence business model evolve after the big model is free?

Experts told reporters that free will attract more users and developers and promote the popularization and application of AI technology. On the other hand, this will also trigger a new competitive landscape, prompting other companies to follow up or explore new business models.