AI tokenomics: RSI researchers worth $10K/day while moms ask how to download DeepSeek
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-10-17
AI researcher Yuchen Jin sketches today's AI tokenomics: frontier lab RSI researchers at $10,000/day, SF startup founders $3,000/day, software engineers $300/day — closing with his mom in China asking how to download DeepSeek because she saw it on the news, highlighting the gap between AI capability premiums and mass adoption.
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