Are companies not getting more value out of the tokens they spent on AI?

Token waste in service of productive use, not waste for the sake of waste, could be the biggest problem in AI right now.

Companies are facing a significant challenge with the escalating cost of AI tokens as they adopt agentic workflows. Uber has already depleted its annual AI budget, and Salesforce…

Agentic AI costs are fostering a scarcity mindset within companies, alongside the practice of “tokenomics” as businesses seek to budget, monitor and optimise the cost of AI.

The OpenAI CEO acknowledges that cost concerns have become a "huge issue."

Sam Altman says AI token usage grew 1,000,000x in six years and projects another 1,000,000x increase, sending ripples through crypto markets including WLD.

Sam Altman said AI budgeting has recently become a "huge issue" for some companies, something that "never came up" earlier this year.

Are companies not getting more value out of the tokens they spent on AI?

Sam Altman talked said that AI costs have recently become a "huge issue." It brought out the AI skeptics on social media.

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"The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"