Kunlun Core CEO Ouyang Jian: The cost of tokens needs to decrease at least an order of magnitude every year.

The 2026 Yabuli Forum Annual Meeting will be held in Yabuli, Heilongjiang from March 17th to 19th. Kunlunxin CEO Ouyang Jian stated that, according to public statistics from Google, ByteDance, and others, global token consumption is experiencing exponential growth, with significant increases every month or every half year, with an annual growth rate exceeding 200%. At the same time, the scale of models continues to expand, and the computational cost of a single token continues to rise, leading to widespread concerns in society about the impact of computing power consumption on production and daily life resources. He emphasized that this contradiction is not only a new challenge for the AI industry, but also an important opportunity for technological innovation. As a new type of infrastructure in the AI era, tokens must have inclusive properties, and the entire industry is working to reduce costs from multiple dimensions. Ouyang Jian stated that token costs need to decrease at least one order of magnitude every year in order to support the high-speed growth in demand for token calls, which will become the core focus of the next phase of the AI industry.