Why the Smallest Unit of Artificial Intelligence Might Become One of the Most Important...
Why the Smallest Unit of Artificial Intelligence Might Become One of the Most Important Economic Units of the Internet
There is something deeply strange happening in computing.
For decades, software economics was relatively easy to understand.
You bought a computer.
You bought some software.
AI companies use tokens to track usage and bill customers. Now economists are using them to track the spread of AI through the…
In the first of a two-part series, CNA looks at the rise of AI tokens and how China’s rapidly expanding token economy is…
Daily AI token consumption has surged more than 1,000-fold in just over two years and exceeded 140 trillion tokens a day in March.
AI companies use tokens to bill customers, and economists now track token consumption as a macroeconomic indicator for AI…
A few years ago, software was something developers bought, installed, and controlled. Today, a...
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.
