Oct 03, 202615 min
AIThe Velvet Rope Era
On Tuesday, September 29, OpenAI gave every ChatGPT Pro subscriber a personal AI agent with its own cloud computer, access to more than 4,000 apps, and the ability to work while you sleep. Every Pro subscriber, that is, except the ones in Europe and the UK. I live in Slovakia. I pay the same $200 a month as everyone in Ohio. And on the biggest launch day of the year, I got a polite little note that said, in effect: not you, not yet. That moment captures the whole state of AI right now better than any benchmark chart. The future is here. It is just standing behind a velvet rope, and someone else is deciding who gets in.