AI tokenomics today:
frontier lab RSI researcher: $10,000/day
startup founder in sf: $3,000/day
software engineer: $300/day
my mom in China: “Can you teach me how to download DeepSeek? I saw it on the news.”
AI token spending ranges from $300 to $10,000 per day
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Yuchen Jin lists daily AI token spending by user type: $10,000 for a frontier lab RSI researcher, $3,000 for a San Francisco startup founder, and $300 for a software engineer. He contrasts this with his mother in China, who asks how to download DeepSeek after seeing it on the news.
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