Donating AI credits to open source projects

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

5 points | by happyPersonR 7 hours ago

3 comments

  • angelahack1 1 hour ago
    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.
    • happyPersonR 1 hour ago
      Yeah… the issue might be exchange rate though between those … let’s call them crypto? Tokens and how much Llm might cost.

      As a dev in a couple different opensource communities I would love a subsidized AI/Llm subscription to help create test cases and maybe find things I missed.

      Might be a minority opinion though lol

  • FloatArtifact 3 hours ago
    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.
  • codegladiator 6 hours ago
    if its so critical then how about donating money and letting the maintainer decide where to spend it.
    • happyPersonR 4 hours ago
      Why not both? :)

      Hyperscalers generally have access to preferred pricing. Would be great to have access to that for open source projects.