If AI sells work itself then the price of work won't anchor to human wages. It starts anchoring to marginal inference cost. Those costs are almost definitely going to continue falling and will lead to demand explosion into work that was never economical before
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A spot market is simple.
Buyers say what they'll pay. Sellers say what they'll accept. A price clears in real time. Capacity goes where it's needed most.
This is how oil gets traded. How electricity gets priced.
Inference has never had a market like this. Until now.
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2/ So what does that actually mean for you?
Every API call you make on The Grid goes into a live market where suppliers compete to serve your requirements.
Not list price. Not whatever Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or Azure decided. What it's actually worth.
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1/ In 1972, seven oil companies set global oil prices. No market. No negotiation. You just pay the rate they set. Then OPEC happened. And out of the chaos, a spot market formed. Then came real price discovery for the first time. Sound familiar? That's AI inference right now.
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