Every enterprise building on AI is paying a hidden toll, not just in dollars, but in optionality and sovereignty. Proprietary inference has created a tokenomics trap: unpredictable costs, black-box pricing, and a dependency model that would be unacceptable in any other layer of enterprise infrastructure. In this fireside chat, Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash and Lux Capital Co-Founder Josh Wolfe make the case that open-source inference isn't a philosophical position, it's the only rational infrastructure decision for organizations that intend to own their AI future.