OpenAI says its 90th-percentile researchers burn over $7,000 in tokens per day
SatelliteNetSec · x · 2026-09-08
- OpenAI says its 90th-percentile researchers now use more than $7,000 worth of tokens per day.
- The figure, quoted by MTSlive, shows how intensively frontier lab researchers lean on models as daily tools — one researcher's daily inference spend rivals the cost of a sizable chunk of GPU time.
- It's a useful anchor for reasoning-cost economics at frontier labs and how deeply model usage is embedded in research workflows.
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