Many of us recognize that the days of nearly-free tokens is quickly drawing to a close, and at some point humans may very well have to dig their keyboards out of cold storage and return once again to the code mines.

OAI and Anthropic need to generate cash flows from operations - once they go public that’s it. Any future funding for reinvestment has to come from internal funds beyond existing raising + IPO.

So yeah, it’s imminent. Let’s see how demand shifts in response in the future.