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by faeyanpiraat 2 days ago
Its so much stuff going through them, how would they monitor it all?
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AI is big in GPU terms but in raw bytes the whole token economy is laughably tractable.

Case in point: OpenRouter is serving 60T tokens a week, but this is all human text and code (and cache hits!), which is almost certainly compressible enough that you could fit the whole week’s usage on a single hard drive.