Microsoft Corp.

(NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella warned employees against AI overuse, urging cost-efficient model selection as rising infrastructure costs pressure Big Tech to rein in token consumption.

"I'm a tokenmaxxer too, it's addictive," Nadella said, speaking at The New York Times' "Hard Fork" podcast.

"But you have to step back when the novelty wears off." He urged workers to match tasks to the right model.

"Don't use frontier models for non-frontier problems," he said, pointing to Microsoft Copilot's auto mode as the solution.