Investor-backed AI startups are reselling frontier-model traces, Nomic CEO alleges

Mulyar's screenshots made the accused founders and startups identifiable; RuntimeWire cropped their names because the thread offered no transaction records or other corroborating evidence.

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Why it matters

Startup credits and priority rate limits are strategic distribution tools for AI labs. If recipients resell the resulting traces, those programs can subsidize rival-model training.

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Andriy Mulyar (@andriy_mulyar), founder and CEO of Nomic, alleged on September 14th that startups with ties to OpenAI, Anthropic and Y Combinator are selling valuable frontier-model traces to unidentified buyers, including companies from China.

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