A simple AI chat typically costs a few hundred tokens.

Token output at large companies like Meta and Microsoft is measured, sometimes via leaderboards or tools showing money spent on AI tokens.

Computationally expensive AI models like Claude Mythos can only be used effectively by individuals who spend significant amounts on tokens.

New generation AI agents can run for hours in the background, consuming millions of tokens without direct user supervision.

Anthropic's models cost $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

Every time a user interacts with AI, it costs tokens, which are the basic unit of AI consumption.