Plain Strata: The Inference Subsidy, Who Pays for the Cheapest AI in the World
A network that pays strangers to serve AI does not pay them in dollars: every few minutes it prints new tokens (tradable coins that exist only on that network) and hands them to the machine owners, who cannot pay an electricity bill with a token and so sell it into a trading pool, an automated scale that walks the price down a little with every sale, which is how the cheapest AI serving in the open world sells a million words of input for 27 cents while costing about $1.41 to produce, with the missing $1.14 paid in silence by token holders who never sent a request. Venture money is a bank…
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