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What Are Companies Getting for All That AI Spending?

What Are Companies Getting for All That AI Spending?

Tech New York Times
The Linux Foundation has launched the Tokenomics Foundation to standardize AI usage metrics as companies struggle to quantify the ROI of massive AI spending.
What: Thousands of models exist with no consensus on token-to-energy ratios or task-specific efficiency, leading the newly formed Tokenomics Foundation to seek common disclosure parameters.
Decoder
  • Tokenomics: The study or management of costs and efficiency associated with the production and consumption of AI tokens.
Original article

The cost and benefits of AI are difficult to weigh. There are now thousands of models, and there is no consensus around how much energy a token requires, which model is best to perform a given task, or how many tokens it should take. The Linux Foundation established the Tokenomics Foundation in June to create common parameters for AI providers to disclose. Being able to measure the costs and benefits of AI will help researchers understand how AI is going to change everything.

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