AI tokenomics: Balancing open-weight and frontier models for optimal ROI

Why airlines don’t fly all-first-class planes and what it teaches us about AI strategyAirlines learned very early that they can’t optimize a profitable route selling every seat as first class. Instead, the aircraft has multiple cabins, and the airline sizes each according to the route, the season, and the customers who use it. Operational flexibility is what makes the route economics work.Now picture the alternative: a plane with only first class seats available, which few of the passengers can afford.