What a great way to boost usage before an IPO. Definitely not scammy behavior!

This sounds like how you get (or at least used to get) free AWS and Azure credits in your first x years as a startup or until you met revenue thresholds. You wouldn't get as many, but, you didn't have to give up a share of your company, to my knowledge.

Were there actually larger credit grants that would've been in exchange for equity, or, is OpenAI doing something novel?

If that's in API price, they may be better of with the subscription.

The desperation is strong in this one

The first taste is free, with a certain perspective on equity

Very odd shadow economy that is in the making here.

Hey, it's the thing I said was going to happen. Thank's for taking my suggestion, Sam.

Adding more layers to circular investments.

I thought code was free now

Sounds like they have an oversupply of these tokens.

Maybe they can borrow a few OpenAI engineers too?

> i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.

Am I the only one who gets a physical, visceral churning in their gut when they read/hear someone unironically using the term "tokenmaxxing"?

This is the absolute worst timeline, and I'm embarrassed to even be in an industry adjacent to these dorks.

so weve officially reached the gambling sddiction portion of the LLM show. good luck FOMO