According to @sama, daily usage of reasoning models has climbed from under 1% to 7% among free users and from 7% to 24% among Plus users, and he emphasized that raising rate limits is important as he expects reasoning usage to keep growing; source: @sama on X, Aug 10, 2025. For traders, this indicates accelerating demand for high-compute inference workloads; OpenAI lists reasoning models with higher pricing and stricter rate limits than standard models, framing the current throughput and capacity constraints that make rate limit changes market-relevant; source: OpenAI pricing and rate limit documentation (2024). AI infrastructure narratives remain directly relevant to crypto-exposed compute networks serving AI workloads, including Render Network (RNDR) and Akash Network (AKT), which position decentralized GPU resources for inference and training; source: Render Network documentation; Akash Network documentation.