OpenAI says its 90th-percentile researchers burn over $7,000 in tokens per day
MTSlive · x · 2026-09-07
According to OpenAI, researchers at its 90th percentile now consume over $7,000 worth of tokens every day — a striking datapoint on how heavily frontier-lab research workflows now rely on massive model usage.
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