@levie: Token costs will become a dominant topic in enterprises going forward with AI. Just got out of a dinner with many Fortu…
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Token costs are emerging as a key enterprise concern for AI adoption, with CIOs struggling to manage spending across different models and use cases. OpenAI announced Guaranteed Capacity to address long-term compute access.
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Token costs will become a dominant topic in enterprises going forward with AI. Just got out of a dinner with many Fortune 500 enterprise CIOs and this was the most heated topic.
A mix of strategies are being employed, but basically no one feels like they have the right solution. A mix of: figuring out how to prioritize workloads to different models, giving out access to better or worse agents by user type, setting different spend caps by team, having teams justify AI by their use-case, and some just having unfettered access.
Everyone is trying to figure out a semi/predictable model right now in a world where the underlying tech and cost models are constantly evolving.
OpenAI (@OpenAI): Introducing OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity: a new offering that enables customers to guarantee long-term access to OpenAI compute.
We’ve made long-term investments in infrastructure, partnerships, and capacity planning to help customers scale reliably.
Now, Guaranteed Capacity
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