Is this like: I buy $500 for a token that entitles me to 5,000,000 API calls?
In the future the retail price of an API call could be ten times that, so even if I don't want to do the API calls I could sell it to someone who would for $5000.
One trouble is I see a lot of variance in terms of how an individual A.I. model will turn out, particularly as judged by a user. Buying into one of these looks like a risky business so if I was going to buy into one I might want to buy into ten.
Whoever is bankrolling the model should have some input into the test data if not the training data.