Prominent tech businesses pushing to use AI intensively have been stung by sky high AI costs, especially for agentic chain-of-thought purposes. Now, they're looking at getting beyond experimentation to tokenomics: really breaking down the return on investment for big AI spending.

Corporate Australia’s obsession with “tokenmaxxing” is facing a sharp boardroom reckoning.

Staggering token spending is forcing Indian firms to explore ways to rein in AI cost. This is where open-source models, small language models & inference layer startups step in,…