Frontier Radar #3: How agentic AI is turning tokens into a business metric
Monthly subscription, open chat, ask question: This is how generative AI used to work. Agentic workflows go beyond this model. They consume many times more tokens, run autonomously for hours and make flat rates unaffordable for providers. At the same time, token prices vary according to speed, specialization and the economic value of the result. The third edition of the AI radar categorizes the emerging token economy: How is billing shifting from subscription to consumption? Why does a favorable token price reveal little about the actual costs? And why is token consumption alone the wrong measure of AI value creation?<br /> The article Frontier Radar #3: How agentic AI is turning tokens into a business metric appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
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