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Cheaper Tokens. Bigger AI Bills.
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๐๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ค๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐ฌ๐๐, ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง ๐จ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฉ, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง. ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ. ๐ณ
AI used to be a flat monthly fee. Now you meter it like electricity, and most owners have no idea how to read that meter.
Today on the ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ, Kree and Varun sit down in studio with ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ค, Senior Digital Specialist at Microsoft and National Copilot Lead for small and medium business in Canada. Trained as a scientist, he thinks in hypotheses and experiments, and he helps businesses move from playing with AI to running on it.
The numbers that frame it: ๐
๐ Token prices have fallen around ๐๐% since 2023, with another ๐๐% drop forecast by 2030
๐ Yet KPMG found ๐๐% of organisations have an AI strategy and only ๐% report an established return
๐ Prices fell about ๐๐๐๐ฑ over two years while total AI spend rose about ๐๐๐%, driven by agents firing many calls per task
๐ Done right, Forrester puts small business Copilot ROI at ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐%, and McKinsey's leaders returned about $๐ per $1 by focusing narrowly
Jermaine's throughline: intelligence got cheap by the unit and expensive by the habit. Cheaper tokens don't automatically mean a smaller bill, because everyone uses vastly more of them. Budget AI in two buckets: the predictable per person seat, and the variable meter for anything agentic, which you watch like a power bill.
What this means for you: start with one clear job, not ten. Measure what it costs and what it saves, like a small experiment. Then scale only what pays back. Cheap tokens reward the disciplined, not the busy. ๐๏ธ
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