Tag: cost

  • 🤖 The AI Subsidy Window Is Closing: Oracle, SAP, and Workday Move to Metered Token Pricing

    Enterprise software vendors subsidized GPU, inference, and token costs to drive AI adoption, creating false budget security while companies burned through annual AI budgets in months. Oracle, SAP, and Workday are now moving to metered pricing, which turns AI spending into an organizational design decision: model elasticity across the three uncontrollable pricing variables, retain core…

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  • Relative to your interests, Wednesday

    Relative to your interests, Wednesday

    After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…

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  • here come the normies

    Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Across the industry Accenture is seeing “soaring token spend,” according to the audio. To consider: There is a…

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  • That means each employee’s AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package. Last year, there were a few anecdotes about high growth tech companies spending $100,000/year per head on tokens. That seems like it’s coming to end.a 🔗 Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

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