Altman's token economy problem

OpenAI's top internal token user burns ~100 billion tokens a month ("to my embarrassment, that's not the token leader in the world"), token costs are suddenly the #2 enterprise complaint, and the WSJ reports OpenAI is weighing price cuts ahead of the IPO war with Anthropic. Remember when the worry was that models were too cheap to be a business?

Sources: Axios, Tom's Hardware, CNBC (WSJ report)