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He definitely can afford it yes, but its still a big ask to want someone to spend 15-25k or whatever it would be (shits getting more expensive by the day) to use a tool that he can just do pay per use. The code is open source so its not like he'd be using a local llm to keep it private.
Wendell from Level1Techs built Greg KH a monster rig for free, I'm sure they'd be willing to build one for Linus too.
Dang, wish someone would build me one for free! Thats super cool of them though!