OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledges rising AI token costs as major client concern
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Jowi Morales
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged during the Intelligence at Work event that companies are increasingly concerned about the rising costs of AI tokens, with some clients spending their entire annual AI budget in the first quarter. Altman stated this is the first time OpenAI's clients have raised cost concerns, and the company is actively working on making its models more efficient to address the issue.
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· 2 pulledPeople are really saying, you know, it's a meme now, but 'My company spent my entire 2026 budget in Q1. Can you make this more efficient?'
We are continuing to push on that more with models. I think we'll have...
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