@heyshrutimishra: Just Insane Six and a half years ago, the world token leader was an OpenAI employee using 100,000 tokens a month. The w…
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Shruti Mishra highlights the explosive growth in AI token usage—from an OpenAI employee using 100k tokens/month six years ago to a worldwide average of 100k/month today—and argues that demand for cheap, high-quality AI intelligence is effectively uncapped.
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Just Insane
Six and a half years ago, the world token leader was an OpenAI employee using 100,000 tokens a month. The worldwide average was zero.
Now the worldwide average is 100,000 tokens per month. The token leader uses hundreds of billions.
If that happens again, in another six and a half years the average person uses 500 billion tokens a month and the leader uses quadrillions.
The demand for sufficiently high quality intelligence at a sufficiently low price is effectively uncapped.
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