The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AIโs runaway costs
"The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"
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"The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"
"We try to make sure that what we track is an outcome, not a vanity metric," he added, BNP Paribas CIB's AI chief Charles Holive said.
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