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AI Just Got 60% Cheaper and Nobody Knows What to Do With All That Compute

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The token price index crashing almost 60% in a few months is the kind of headline that sounds scary until you actually sit down and think about it. Silicon Data's LLM Token Expenditure Index — a usage-weighted measure of what a million tokens actually costs you — dropped to $0.9665 by August 31st.…

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  1. 2026-09-06 22:57 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Just Got 60% Cheaper and Nobody Knows What to Do With All That Compute

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