A market should price APIs, but not decide whether frontier AI keeps getting funded
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that markets should set API prices and workload routing, but quarterly earnings should not decide whether the U.S. keeps funding the machinery behind frontier intelligence.
It frames cheap intelligence as the dividend and frontier research as the engine, saying America needs both rather than sacrificing long-term model development for short-term financial discipline.
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