Tokens are the wrong unit for physical-world AI, argues infra founder
prateekj · x · 2026-11-11
prateekj argues tokens are the wrong unit for the physical world: a minute of video costs different token amounts across Gemini, Qwen and other models, and 3D content like Gaussian splats has no token count at all. Buyers of vision compute think in images, video-seconds, scenes and objects, so infra for embodied intelligence will likely be priced in units of the world rather than units of text.
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