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fromTechRepublic
2 days ago

5 Key Takeaways from Jensen Huang's GTC Keynote: The Rise of the AI 'Token Factory'

AI represents an industrial revolution with greater impact than the Internet, transforming data centers into token factories that produce intelligence as the fundamental commodity of the economy.
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Why you'll pay more for AI in 2026, and 3 money-saving tips to try

We're living in a token economy. Each piece of content -- words, images, sounds, etc. -- is treated by an AI model as an atomic unit of work called a token. When you type into a prompt in ChatGPT, and you receive a paragraph in response, or you call an API to do the same thing inside an app you've built, both the input and the output data are counted as tokens. As a result, the meter is always running when you use AI, racking up costs per token, and the total bill is set to go higher in aggregate.
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