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end of subsidized AI agents

April 6, 2026This Week in Startups, a16z

This Week in Startups and a16z highlight rising costs and access constraints for third-party agent tools, pointing to a shift from cheap experimentation to paid, metered agent usage.

Anthropic just pulled the plug on Claude subscriptions for OpenClaw and every third-party agentic tool.
whether this is truly the end of the subsidized AI era
what happens when the cost of building software drops to near zero
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