Yukon pitches pooling 1,000 AI subscriptions into $20M of intelligence compute
gajesh · x · 2026-09-11
gajesh outlines Yukon's idea: aggregate ordinary people's AI subscriptions to solve big problems, breaking the monopoly where only OpenAI and Anthropic can spend $25M of intelligence on a problem. A Codex sub is worth $20k/month in compute, so 1,000 participants = $20M; ECDSA.Fail likely burned north of $10M. Good crowd problems need cause, status, fun, or money. He says writing verifiers as challenges is the most exciting way to participate.
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