Also

Also Instead of the gold standard, we can imagine an inference standard of exchange, the FLOP. (As opposed to tokens, this accounts for AI ability) With some AI help, I figure 1 buys roughly 10^17 managed-LLM inference FLOPs. So that 4 coffee would cost half an exaFLOP, choom.

Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-05-05