Paying per token to move robots: a quip about embodied AI business models
philfung · x · 2026-10-18
Developer philfung quips that it would be hilarious/sad if we end up paying per token to move robots — and notes that's exactly the outcome OpenAI and Anthropic hope for.
A one-liner pointing at the embodied AI business model: robot actions generated by large models, billed by inference tokens.
Related event: Joke Goes Viral: Robots May Soon Run on Token Billing(3 posts)→
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