LIVE: How Silicon Valley's 'tokenmaxxing' is juicing AI demand

Tokens are the basic unit of AI usage. Conversing with an AI chatbot consumes a couple hundred tokens for every paragraph it generates. Making an AI perform tasks for you consumes thousands more. Engineers across Silicon Valley are now competing to burn the most tokens, a trend called "tokenmaxxing." It's showing up in performance reviews, job offers, and public leaderboards. If a growing share of AI demand is performative, what does that mean for the $1 trillion+ infrastructure buildout? Ramp CEO Eric Glym ...