BasedAI

Accelerating Open Source AI

@GetHirebased Puts An AI Workforce Inside Every Business

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

Today we step out of stealth.

BasedAI is the acceleration and commercialization layer for open source AI, building the next decade of intelligence.

Models, agents, and workflows — enterprise-ready, open by default.

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Our CEO has made the open source cost argument in investor rooms for years. This week Microsoft, Uber, and GitHub made it for her.

@TeanaTaylor on what the cost inflection looks like from inside the company built for exactly this moment.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

https://t.co/hVpEzN7g2F

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

GitHub Copilot moved all its plans to usage-based pricing today. The meter is on.

The reason it can move now is the same reason every other closed-AI vendor will follow. The subsidy era is unwinding, the token economics are catching up, and the bill is starting to arrive at scale.

The race becomes who burns fewer tokens per outcome. Open weights already win that race on cost.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs https://t.co/4ppnU3ZG5b

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

5/ None of these are technology questions.

They are leverage questions. They are about what the team gets to do once the volume of routine work stops eating the week.

That is the gap AI coworkers were built to close.

@GetHirebased is in closed beta for solopreneurs and small teams today. We are scoping the first wave of enterprise design partners now.

If the questions above are the conversations your team is having internally, we would like to compare notes.

https://t.co/3g14neApq0

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Two weeks out of stealth. What growing companies are actually asking us about AI coworkers

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4/ It is “how do we accelerate without burning out the three people who carry the institutional knowledge?"

Every growing company has those three people. They are the bottleneck on everything until something changes.

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

Where does your data go, and who gets smarter when you send it?

This is the question most coverage of enterprise AI in 2026 is still polite enough not to ask out loud.

https://t.co/BBDshvq6SG

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

The conversation @JoshGoodbody is having with mid-market operators is the conversation we built BasedAI to land in.

Enterprise demand has moved from "does AI work" to "who delivers it." Open source AI as digital coworkers is the structural answer.

This is what BasedAI accelerates

[Josh Goodbody @JoshGoodbody]

https://t.co/1Mu33xrbFl

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

Memorial Day. Today is for the ones we lost.

Open source software has always been built on top of work others have made freely available. Open source AI is the same idea, one layer up.

[BasedAI @BasedAI_co]

Closed frontier labs are far more expensive than open weights. Today's price is held up by a subsidy that is ending.

Enterprises are already moving. Open weights win on cost, efficiency, and on data that does not train a competitor's next model.

This is why we built BasedAI

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

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7/ Products live today

Hirebase — AI employees, closed beta https://t.co/ir9wy3qTtU

Coming soon - BasedAPIs — open source models served securely and reliably for enterprise production.

Read the full thesis 👇

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1/ Open source AI is having its Linux Moment.

Three signals say the default is about to flip

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6/ So what is missing?

It’s not the models. It’s the layer above them — orchestration, integrations, governance, reliability. The unglamorous work.

That is what BasedAI builds

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The frontier labs start with the Fortune 100 and work down.

We start with solopreneurs and work up.

Open source AI, made dependable for the businesses doing real work.

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The moment that crystallized it for our CEO @TeanaTaylor:

The open source tools that businesses had just started to deploy were getting acqui-hired into the closed labs. OpenClaw was the tell.

This is the gap BasedAI fills.

🎥 @therollupco / AI Supercycle Ep 33