Why AI Subscriptions Are About to Break (Tokenomics Explained)

Why are AI subscriptions about to break? This week's AI podcast unpacks tokenomics, the gym-membership flaw in ChatGPT and Claude pricing, and what happens when AI agents start running 50,000 queries a minute instead of one human at a time. Plus Huawei's 7nm chip independence, the Musk vs Altman trial, and what Meta's Indiana data center should look like if big tech borrowed the solar industry's community-benefit playbook.

Key topics covered:

AI tokenomics and why subscription pricing collapses under agentic workloads

Huawei 7nm chips running DeepSeek and Kimi K2 outside U.S. control

Open-source vs closed-weights vs closed AI models, in plain English

The Musk vs Altman OpenAI trial and the $151 billion question

Whether OpenAI ends up as a U.S. government arm of AI

Alpha School, $100K teacher salaries, and AI in K-12 compensation

Meta's Lebanon, Indiana data center and community-benefit agreements

Bottom line: the AI economy is about to reprice itself, and the people who quietly benefit from that shift will not be the same people getting billed for it.

About Julie Koehrer:

On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7. 15+ years in radio and broadcast.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/

Resources mentioned:

OpenAI → https://openai.com

Anthropic (Claude) → https://www.anthropic.com

Huawei → https://www.huawei.com

DeepSeek → https://www.deepseek.com

Kimi K2 → https://www.moonshot.cn

Alpha School → https://alpha.school

Empire of AI by Karen Hao → https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780593657508/empireofai

Work with Jason → jason@mycitizen.ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/

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