I believe the cost of using AI will eventually become dynamic pricing, like electricity. Currently, inference costs constantly fluctuate based on time and load, yet they are artificially flattened into flat-rate subscriptions. Once demand forecasting becomes reliable, a world where “inference at night is cheaper” will be a natural outcome. And if we move to per-second usage-based billing, cryptocurrency is the strongest candidate for the payment infrastructure due to its strength in microtransactions. The convergence of AI and crypto is here, too.