Jevons Paradox chart: AI cost per token down about 99% while token usage is up about 500x (chart via Andreas Steno Larsen)

Jevons in One Chart: Intelligence Got 99% Cheaper and We’re Using 500x More

Jevons Paradox chart: AI cost per token down about 99% while token usage is up about 500x (chart via Andreas Steno Larsen)

๐Ÿšจ Jevons in one chart. Intelligence got 99% cheaper and we’re using 500x more of it.

Chart via Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno).

Same Sentence, Two Headlines

This is why “AI prices are collapsing” and “AI demand is exploding” are the same sentence. Cheaper tokens don’t shrink the market. They create the market.

That’s Jevons Paradox: make a resource cheaper and people don’t use less of it. They find a hundred new ways to use more.

The Shakeout and the Shortage

It’s also why the shakeout and the shortage can both be true at once. Price per token falls. Compute demand doesn’t.

The money flows to whoever owns the capacity, the power and the memory that serve it.

Still Early

Spending goes up. Spending per unit goes down. Still early.

Not financial advice. Do your own research.


Originally posted on X by Rosanna Prestia, MBA (@RosannaInvests): https://x.com/RosannaInvests/status/2117009316423315950

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