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Donating AI credits to open source projects
7 points by happyPersonR 13 days ago
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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codegladiator 13 days ago
if its so critical then how about donating money and letting the maintainer decide where to spend it.
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happyPersonR 13 days ago
Why not both? :)

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

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FloatArtifact 13 days 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.
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angelahack1 12 days 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.
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happyPersonR 12 days 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

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