arXiv AI

AI Tokenomics: The Economics of Tokens, Computation, and Pricing in Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 24616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokens have become the practical accounting unit for modern foundation model services, linking information processing, computation, memory use, energy expenditure, pricing, and economic value.

arXiv AI
Jul 9

The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token Economics of Enterprise Agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 06906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI development today runs on token maxing: buying capability with tokens -- longer reasoning traces, more turns, wider tool payloads, bigger replayed contexts -- so tokens per task grow faster than task value.

By Muayad Sayed Ali, Aliaksandra Novik, Anji Boddupally, Artem Yavorskyi, Chris Nickerson, Daniel Rica, Emily DuGranrut, Felix Leung, Garrett Prince, Grace Barnett, Heath Robinson, Hosain Al Ahmad, Jesse Resnick, Juan Carlos Farah, Jyothi Swaroop Meruga, Leonid Kuznetsov, Luke Gorham, Marie Schmoll, Michael Paciullo, Saumya Das, Sharath Sheripally, Tommy Griscom, Mykyta Osadchyi, Neha Mantri, Nick Westrum, Olivia Benowitz, Parikshith Kulkarni, Radik Chernyshov, Rakshith Vasudev, Rohith Nadimpally, Vikas Gangadevi, Waseem AlShikh
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Task-to-Model Optimization for Enterprise LLM Coding Assistants: A Data-Driven Framework for Cost-Optimal Routing

arXiv:2608. 08528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI coding assistants incur substantial inference spend, and naive token-cost minimization often fails to reduce end-to-end cost once retries, escalations, and developer wait time are included.

By Srinivasan Manoharan, Junhua Zhao, Fangbo Tu, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Maliah Rajan M, Ashwin Hegde, Mithun Sasidharan, Kalyan Chakravarthi Podamekala
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Accounting for AI Inference in Corporate GHG Inventories: A Four-Tier Methodology for Scope 3 Category 1 Reporting

arXiv:2606. 10660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI inference services -- API subscriptions, enterprise chat tools, and SaaS products with embedded AI features -- fall unambiguously within Scope 3 Category 1 under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires disclosure for fiscal years starting January 2024.

By Guillermo Llopis (SOMA AI, Barcelona)
arXiv AI
Jun 11

The Environmental Cost of LLMs in AIED: Reporting and Practices

arXiv:2606. 11215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) usage in recent years has become increasingly widespread in the Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) community.

By Sabrina C. Eimler, Lukas Erle, Daniel Flood, Aditi Haiman, Luca H\"ackert, Andr\'e Helgert, Lachlan McGinness, B\"usra Yapici