Essay Calls Token-Based AI Pricing the 'Nokia Era' of Intelligence

A widely shared essay compares today's token-based AI pricing to 1990s telecom billing—per-minute fees, roaming charges and overages reborn as input/output tokens, caching fees and rate limits—arguing the industry has created an artificial scarcity economy in the 'Nokia era' of intelligence.

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