Donating AI credits to open source projects

7 points by happyPersonR ↗ HN
Would love to have a discussion about big companies donating LLM credits to opensource projects that are critical. Would help maintainers build sustainable pipelines for critical code we all use

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if its so critical then how about donating money and letting the maintainer decide where to spend it.
As an open source developer, I'd rather have companies donate the subscription x months than tokens. Money would be amazing, but nobody really supports accessibility which is where my interests and time goes.
I think this gives me a huge idea: what if we could treat tokens as money — or as something like proof-of-work? In the end, a token is essentially a unit of processing value.
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