📈 Why AI bills rise as costs fall

Agents eat tokens at rates that are impossible to forecast

This post originally appeared in Exponential View.

Hi all,

Last week, we explored what tokenmaxxing means for CFOs and how firms can buffer unexpected AI costs.

We go further today to show you why AI bills are hard to forecast today and what will happen as we crack that problem.

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The token explosion paradox

We estimate that the number of tokens processed per quarter has grown by around 17,000x over four years.¹