Tokenmaxxing is out, tokenminning is in

The New York Times (Eli Tan) reported on a shift companies are now making after a year of unchecked AI spending.

Rob May, our CEO, told the Times: CEOs who couldn’t measure AI savviness defaulted to “who’s using the most tokens.” Volume over efficiency was never going to hold once the bills landed.

Uber blew through its full-year AI budget in four months. Meta is capping usage after an “exponential increase” in costs. AT&T’s shows companies can save up to 90% by using less powerful models for most tasks.

This is the insight we built Neurometric on. 

Read the full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/technology/ai-token-minimizing.html