Researcher says agent token spend tops his rent, courts frontier labs for access
iScienceLuvr · x · 2026-10-08
Will Depue says he's working on a scientific problem being 10x accelerated by his agent token spend — which exceeds his rent — and invites frontier labs to lend their unreleased models to the discovery. Open-source cancer researcher iScienceLuvr wonders if the strategy will work, noting they already use frontier open models for cancer research.
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