On the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, and I discussed what those changes might mean for the larger AI ecosystem. After all, as Anthropic and other big AI companies plan to go public, leading to awkward questions about profitability, we're likely to see similar price increases for other AI products, and more usage restrictions as businesses try to keep costs under control. Kirsten, meanwhile, suggested that this also reflects 'how quickly things are moving.' In just a few months, companies became obsessed with 'tokenmaxxxing,' then turned against it due to the high costs. So as AI companies write their IPO filings, she asked, 'How do you even write these risks in, because they are evolving before our eyes'' Anthony Ha: When we were planning for this, Sean, you called this the Tokenpocalypse. And I want to hear more about what you think about it, but there was an example of Microsoft deciding with GitHub Copilot that they're going to start...
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