Sam Altman 在 YC Startup School 2026 表示，AI token 使用量正指数级增长：六年前全球人均月 token 用量近乎为零，如今平均约 10 万，OpenAI 内部最高者达数千亿。
Sam Altman on how AI token usage is growing at an exponential rate.
"6 and a half years ago, the world token leader was an OpenAI employee using about 100,000 tokens a month. And this seemed ludicrous at the time. The worldwide average per capita was, like, zero.
Now, the worldwide average of tokens per month, is like 100,000, and the token leader at OpenAI uses something in the hundreds of billions.
If that happens again, which I think it probably will, then in another six and a half years, the average person uses, let’s say, 500 billion tokens a month, and the token leader uses a quadrillion or quadrillions of tokens a month.
And I think that will just become the expectation."
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He was at YC Startup School 2026, in conversation
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From "Y Combinator" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
OpenAI's usage pattern from CFO Sarah Friar's new interview. "Our free users do about seven turns, or seven questions, a day. Our first paid tier does double that, about 15. Our real paid tier, Plus, which is $20, is about 3x, and Pro is about 11x over a free user." Our mission at OpenAI is AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for the benefit of humanity who can pay, or for the benefit of humanity who live in an enterprise" ---- From @theallinpod YouTube channel, (link in comment)在 X 查看被引用的帖子
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