Tech Enthusiast Weekly (Issue #398): Token Costs Are Unbearable
An OpenAI employee consumed 603 billion tokens in one month—valued at $1.3M—revealing the true cost of AI programming; Uber burned through its $3.4B annual AI budget in four months, and Microsoft dropped Claude Code, proving unlimited top-model usage is financially unsustainable; domestic open-source models cost 1/30–1/50 of foreign flagship models, but strongest models remain closed-source and self-hosting incurs high hardware costs.
入选理由:OpenAI员工单月使用6030亿Token(≈130万美元),若按市场价折算,程序员年均Token成本达200万~1亿人民币。


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