The Sequence Opinion #879: When Tokens Become Balance Sheet Items

The Token Economy Is Here. We’re Measuring It Wrong.

AI tokens are becoming are incresingly becoming part of every company economics. You see large companies measuring and reporting token expenses and forecasts like a well understood accounting units. In reality, we are entering a new era: the token economy. How to think about it ? measury it? Will we see a new generation of software in this space? An ERP for tokens?

Let’s discuss.

The Smallest Billable Thought

Something strange happened quietly, and then all at once: the token became the atomic unit of the AI economy.

Not the parameter. Not the GPU. Not even the model. The token.