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“Because now you have masses, millions, maybe billions of people running their own agent on their own hardware.”

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Because now you have masses, millions, maybe billions of people running their own agent on their own hardware. So the only thing they're paying for is electricity and their Internet access. So they'll be paying literally cents per day to participate in the agent economy. And they could buy a subscription for maybe 10 or $20 to get all the other value added services on top of that. So you could easily imagine a world where for $10 a month, you had the most amazing agent running on your behalf. And really, we really don't need

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An MIT professor explains how personal AI agents running on individual hardware could cost just cents per day in electricity, with premium services available for $10-20 monthly subscriptions. This distributed model would make powerful AI assistance accessible to billions of people at an unprecedented price point.

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