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AI wrapper "companies" going to ZERO when token prices triple

lol no way is open ai and anthropic going to keep the free r...
robot daddy
  02/19/26
They’re already going to zero man the wrappers are so ...
simp crew soldier #1488
  02/19/26
yeah good point. but also other kinds of AI startups are goi...
robot daddy
  02/19/26
When do you think they’re gonna do the rug pull and 10...
simp crew soldier #1488
  02/19/26
gross margin on tokens is already pretty good (around 50%), ...
Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS
  02/19/26
Models are only going to get cheaper to run relative to thei...
faggy vibes
  02/19/26
How tf do you figure that models are only getting cheaper to...
simp crew soldier #1488
  02/19/26
maybe they are assuming that if raw comopute per query inccr...
robot daddy
  02/19/26
I think ultimately we’re going to end up at a spot wit...
simp crew soldier #1488
  02/19/26
https://x.com/gdb/status/2024662197692223857
simp crew soldier #1488
  02/20/26
the trend is toward cheaper tokens yes. but people would sti...
robot daddy
  02/19/26


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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:40 PM
Author: robot daddy

lol no way is open ai and anthropic going to keep the free ride going forever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681739)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:43 PM
Author: simp crew soldier #1488

They’re already going to zero man the wrappers are so fuckin done here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681746)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:45 PM
Author: robot daddy

yeah good point. but also other kinds of AI startups are going to ZERO when token prices go up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681749)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:47 PM
Author: simp crew soldier #1488

When do you think they’re gonna do the rug pull and 10x token prices

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681754)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:11 PM
Author: Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS

gross margin on tokens is already pretty good (around 50%), and it's a competitive market requiring billions in R&D and training to keep your tokens worth anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681777)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:15 PM
Author: faggy vibes (🧐)

Models are only going to get cheaper to run relative to their strength, there’s far too much competition. The shit coming out of China on a relative shoestring budget (and price to run) is very impressive. Anthropic is rushing to build products on top and establish a dominant position in B2B early on for that exact reason

AI wrappers go to zero not because of token prices but because they only get easier to build the better the models get, and the frontier labs are obviously always a step ahead in access to the best models and talent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681782)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:19 PM
Author: simp crew soldier #1488

How tf do you figure that models are only getting cheaper to run relative to strength when all of the gains in capabilities in the past 18 months have come from throwing as much inference compute as possible at whatever you want the model to do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681785)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:25 PM
Author: robot daddy

maybe they are assuming that if raw comopute per query inccreases, efficency per outcome is still increasing faster overall?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681795)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:35 PM
Author: simp crew soldier #1488

I think ultimately we’re going to end up at a spot with LLMs where you can keep getting marginal capability gains by spending tons of inference compute but they’re increasingly inefficient gains relative to cost

I worry that like capital itself, access to the most powerful AI capabilities will end up gated behind prohibitively high costs and access to “borrowed” Monopoly money. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681803)



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Date: February 20th, 2026 1:00 AM
Author: simp crew soldier #1488

https://x.com/gdb/status/2024662197692223857

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681868)



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Date: February 19th, 2026 11:21 PM
Author: robot daddy

the trend is toward cheaper tokens yes. but people would still pay for the frontier if they tripled prices so I wouldn't rule it out yet. plus its not profitable right now open ai and anthropic are basiclaly giving people a free ride. I think the main thing stopping them is that open source models are improving and distillation makes "good enough" very cheap. but still i think if they keep the gap wide enough at the frontier the prices could rise especially in industries that are high stakes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5836559&forum_id=2)#49681790)