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Free AI plans aren't shrinking so much as splitting: the features keep coming, the compute is what's going

Look at the last few weeks side by side: Gemini: from October 9, accounts without a Google AI plan only get Flash-Lite. Flash and Pro go away. Even AI Plus, the cheapest paid plan, loses Pro. NotebookLM (now officially Gemini Notebook): on September 2 the fixed daily counts were replaced with a com…

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  1. 2026-10-07 13:35 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Free AI plans aren't shrinking so much as splitting: the features keep coming, the compute is what's going

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