OpenAI's @sama on scaling challenges: 6 years ago the top tokenmaxxer in the world was using 100k toks/mo, now that's the world median and top tokenmaxxer is > 100B toks/mo.
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 3 juin 2026
That's a 1,000,000x in 6 years.
We think there's another 1,000,000x and global average usage of 100B… https://t.co/wMhihMvaEv pic.twitter.com/S5cvw3RcXf
OpenAI's @sama on scaling challenges: 6 years ago the top tokenmaxxer in the world was using 100k toks/mo, now that's the world median and top tokenmaxxer is > 100B toks/mo. That's a 1,000,000x in 6 years. We think there's another 1,000,000x and global average usage of 100B