New piece: Why (good) AI needs crypto.

TLDR: Closed AI is anti-competitive. Open source AI hits a “resource problem” (huge compute/data costs). Crypto fixes this by incentivizing resource contributions via ownership—unlocking bigger models & faster innovation.
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https://variant.fund/articles/why-good-ai-needs-crypto/

learned yesterday that deepseek v3 only cost $5.5m to train

for comparison, that is <1% of aixbt's market cap

@operator & /operator | BCI, bioinformatics, search, chaos, decentralized AI

i feel like ppl sleep on the lowering costs isn’t $100m gpt4 now $5-10?