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Artificial intelligence has spent the last two years quietly making itself indispensable. Now it wants to be paid. With free tiers shrinking and subscriptions multiplying, India’s 800 million internet users are about to discover a new line item in their monthly budgets.

We used to marvel at new tools. Now, we expect them. When a new model is released, the first response is excitement about what it can do, not whether it should exist. Companies compete to launch faster, smarter, and more autonomous systems. Capabilities requiring deep scientific knowledge now arrive as plug-and-play APIs and downloadable code.