Meta now sells a “contributor” endpoint – roughly 5% of the normal API price in exchange for storing, sharing, and training on your prompts. That’s the great move, and every open-weight lab should copy it: a honest direct endpoint specifically to get datasets in exchange for discount.
The author proposes capping any company at 10 percent of server-grade GPUs, with progressive taxes on excess, to prevent AI monopolies, preserve competition, and force algorithmic progress rather than compute brute force.
Claims expensive AI pricing confines frontier models to businesses and the wealthy, since employers capture productivity gains while personal life gets the weaker cheap models, and argues open-weight inference is the fair alternative.