Rent the frontier, own the floor: builders should hedge against API access becoming a diplomatic variable
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-21
Advice for builders: keep using frontier models — they're the best tool on earth — but know exactly what you own the day the door closes. Every pipeline assumes the frontier API answers tomorrow at today's price from your country; that assumption is now a diplomatic variable. Rent the frontier, own the floor.
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