April 17 news.OpenClaw Maintainer, TextCortex Founding Engineer Onur Solmaz wrote yesterday on platform X warning businesses not to use core AI WorkflowBUILDING ON THE PROPRIETARY PRODUCTS OF THE AI GIANT, IT IS BELIEVED THAT THIS WILL TURN THE BUSINESS INTO A LONG-TERM "TENANT", AT RISK OF CONTINUED EXPLOITATION BY SUPPLIERS。
Solmaz, forget it:
Subscriptions to a single large AI laboratory advanced programme of approximately $2,400 per year, with two subscriptions of up to $4,800, while a fancy Ascent GX10 local reasoned device is sold for approximately $3000 and can be reused for many years。
AT THE SAME TIME, HE NOTED THAT SOME OF THE PLANS FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS BY AI WERE CURRENTLY BEING SOLD AT A LOSS AND THAT FUTURE PRICE INCREASES WERE ALMOST INEVITABLE。
You're actually saying -- in the next 10 years, exploit me as much as you can because it's too painful to replace you。
He suggested that companies turn to open sources like OpenClaw, OpenAgents, etc AI AgentFramework to preserve the freedom to replace the bottom model at any time or to switch local hardware。