https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers Uber's chief technology officer already blew through his full 2026 AI budget due to token costs, according to The Information.

Lol. Lmao even

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Meta was spending ~300 MILLION dollars per MONTH on tokens around a month ago.

I know they are using Claude, so the price estimation of 5$ per 1M tokens is kind of true, more or less.

Tell me how is this sustainable in the long term?

In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens. Using the least expensive version of Claude Opus 4.6, which costs $5 for every million tokens, that one user alone could have cost Meta more than $1.4 million.

⁨https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/%E2%81%A9

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Using the least expensive model of Claude

Meta makes LLMs. They’ve made multiple, some of them are even tailored for coding.

Why are they using Anthropic’s AI instead of their own?

I can only imagine there’s some sort of ouroboros slop machine money laundering cycle going on or something

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Because their LLMs suck, and they still want their devs to be productive, while watching their usage to train the internal models.

They give you a choice, and no one is using the internal models.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

~300 MILLION dollars per MONTH Tell me how is this sustainable in the long term?

Every single rich SOB on earth is pooling their hedged bets together. Since 2022 Meta has been issuing bonds directly to investors. They announced another 30 Billion in bonds at the end of 2025.

People need to realize that the AI bubble will not pop by accident. It will pop as a direct result of the Epstien-Shareholder class cashing out and leaving retail investors hodling the bag.