I have spoken to lots of companies that blew through their token budget for the year in months, but a half a billion dollars on internal emp…

Ethan Mollick discusses companies that rapidly depleted their annual token budgets within months, with some spending hundreds of millions of dollars on internal employee use of large language models. The post highlights the unexpectedly high costs and consumption rates organizations are experiencing as they integrate AI tools into their operations.

Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-05-28