Which will have unintended consequences, like falling behind competitors, who will use it against Apple as a leverage and slowly push it from European market, which is 26% of Apple's revenue.
Average European is like average American, they are not following these political and corporational dramas, but they can tell that i.e. Samsung has features, while Apple is stale.
It was soon after. It's a requirement of GDPR to get permission for certain kinds of cookies, and seemingly every website either falls under non-exempt or can't afford to prove they're exempt.
The GDPR is what really gave it enforcement teeth though and that's when it really exploded and made the banners more intrusive and adopted by non-EU-native websites that weren't based in but still did business inside the EU.
Whisper is more lightweight and smaller. We will support Parakeet in the near future too.
Monetization:
For individuals:
We have a Pro license implemented in our app. Some non-essential features like custom templates or multi-turn chat are gated behind a paid license. (A custom STT model will also be included soon.) There's still no sign-up required. We use keygen.sh to generate offline-verifiable license keys. Currently, it's priced at $179/year.
For business:
If they want to self-host some kind of admin server with integrations, access control, and SSO, we plan to sell a business license.
Its hard to get a model that does it usefully on your laptop. Theres an open source 1.5B model from QuocDat, and Morph - https://morphllm.com which is a fast apply model as an API (that I run)
