Long ago, from the time of the Hùng Kings, there was a saying: "All things flourish and then decline, break apart and then gather again; nothing remains unchanged forever with time."
Reading it again, I feel like it’s the same as AI with crypto these past few years, lol.
Back then, everyone always said: AI is AI, blockchain is blockchain.
Now everywhere you go, it’s AI + crypto.
But a lot of the time, I feel it’s just buzzwords being stacked, not real value being created.
The other day I went into a coffee shop that really advertised it:
Order with AI.
Pay with blockchain.
Experience the future.
After hearing that, I thought they were about to let me drink coffee on Mars.
In the end, I still had to enter the OTP myself, confirm myself, check the order myself, and go pick up the water myself.
When I took the first sip, I thought:
So is technology really replacing me… or am I just working for free for technology?
That’s when I found it @OpenGradient amazing.
They didn’t talk about the story of AI being stronger.
They’re trying to turn AI into infrastructure.
Where’s the model.
Which node runs compute.
The verifier checks.
User chats with Fable 5 or generates images using Image Studio.
$OPG sits in the middle, connecting everything.
One thing I find a bit strange:
Crypto has always tokenized assets.
Then it tokenized attention.
But if OpenGradient is headed in the right direction, they’re trying to tokenize… inference.
Meaning value only comes into being when AI is actually used.
But this is also where I want to push back.
Having a lot of requests doesn’t necessarily create value.
A pretty dashboard doesn’t necessarily make users less busy.
And if, in the end, users still have to go back and fix every step, then AI is only outsourcing the opposite work to humans.
I think future AI infrastructure should reward the rate of completing tasks—not just throughput.
OpenGradient is going in the right direction: turning AI into infrastructure. But they need to focus on rewarding results, not just the nice numbers on a dashboard.
#OPG
Reading it again, I feel like it’s the same as AI with crypto these past few years, lol.
Back then, everyone always said: AI is AI, blockchain is blockchain.
Now everywhere you go, it’s AI + crypto.
But a lot of the time, I feel it’s just buzzwords being stacked, not real value being created.
The other day I went into a coffee shop that really advertised it:
Order with AI.
Pay with blockchain.
Experience the future.
After hearing that, I thought they were about to let me drink coffee on Mars.
In the end, I still had to enter the OTP myself, confirm myself, check the order myself, and go pick up the water myself.
When I took the first sip, I thought:
So is technology really replacing me… or am I just working for free for technology?
That’s when I found it @OpenGradient amazing.
They didn’t talk about the story of AI being stronger.
They’re trying to turn AI into infrastructure.
Where’s the model.
Which node runs compute.
The verifier checks.
User chats with Fable 5 or generates images using Image Studio.
$OPG sits in the middle, connecting everything.
One thing I find a bit strange:
Crypto has always tokenized assets.
Then it tokenized attention.
But if OpenGradient is headed in the right direction, they’re trying to tokenize… inference.
Meaning value only comes into being when AI is actually used.
But this is also where I want to push back.
Having a lot of requests doesn’t necessarily create value.
A pretty dashboard doesn’t necessarily make users less busy.
And if, in the end, users still have to go back and fix every step, then AI is only outsourcing the opposite work to humans.
I think future AI infrastructure should reward the rate of completing tasks—not just throughput.
OpenGradient is going in the right direction: turning AI into infrastructure. But they need to focus on rewarding results, not just the nice numbers on a dashboard.
#OPG
