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… Some developers with financial whiplash have taken to places like Reddit and X to bemoan what — in many cases — appears to be a drastic escalation in cost. “What a joke,” one Redditor recently wrote , claiming that, while they currently only pay around $29 per month, the new rate will balloon their… …
… Kirsten, meanwhile, suggested that this also reflects “how quickly things are moving.” In just a few months, companies became obsessed with “tokenmaxxxing,” then turned against it due to the high costs. …
… The tokens themselves may sweeten the deal further: As inference costs continue to fall, what OpenAI is giving away today could cost it very little to produce tomorrow — making the equity it receives in return look increasingly cheap. …
… Jain claims that Glean’s context graph also helps enterprises cut AI computing costs. “If you connect your AI to Glean, it gives you all the information that you need to do your work, and that results in AI consuming far fewer tokens compared to if you unleash AI onto your systems directly,” Jain s… …
… Many enterprises are growing critical of AI costs after seeing the bills come in or blowing through their yearly AI budgets early. …
… With token prices rising and subsidies slowing down, users are facing cost pressure for the first time. We don’t know whether the new cost pressure will actually drive enterprise users to smaller models. …