Have you noticed how the real AI power move might not be building the smartest model, but owning the place where people choose between models? When I read OpenGradient’s own pages, that’s the part that stood out to me: it says users can chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok without revealing who they are, because requests move through an OHTTP relay and a TEE-isolated gateway that separates identity from content. What makes that more interesting is the pricing layer — one credit balance covers every frontier model, image generation, and the local agent, with 1,000 credits equal to $1 and no subscription model to lock users in. That changes the game a bit. If the privacy layer stays the same while the model underneath can change, then the model provider starts looking replaceable, while the distribution layer becomes the thing users actually trust and return to. For me, that is the sharper OpenGradient story: not just private AI, but a cleaner AI gateway where identity, billing, and access sit above the model, and that could matter more than any single model launch.

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