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OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to Y Combinator startups, which could make AI tokens much cheaper and solve the cost problem for consumer AI ideas.

A side effect of this I'm very excited about: it solves the "tokens are too expensive" problem for consumer AI ideas. by the time you eat the $2M in the credits, say over 1-2 years, token costs at the current level of intelligence will probably fall 10-20x. so all you need to do is make something people want with the current intelligence levels, and you won't touch your cash runway now and token costs will go to 5% of what they are now by the time you run out of credits.
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A side effect of this I’m very excited about: it solves the “tokens are too expensive” problem for consumer AI ideas.

by the time you eat the $2M in the credits, say over 1-2 years, token costs at the current level of intelligence will probably fall 10-20x.

so all you need to do is make something people want with the current intelligence levels, and you won’t touch your cash runway now and token costs will go to 5% of what they are now by the time you run out of credits.

Y Combinator (@ycombinator): OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches.

We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it.

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