Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026
Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees' token usage …
The Information Jyoti Mann
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@zephyr_z9
@zephyr_z9
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Well, well, well... MSL needs to ship a good coding model so that employees can use it
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@kakashiii111
@kakashiii111
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Jensen will not like this
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@bigsnugga
@bigsnugga
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that AI bubble pop is gonna be generational and they're aiming for retail investors to hold the bag when it does
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@amir
Amir Efrati
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new: Meta is doing a 180, trying to be vanguard of token-minimizing. 2 months ago Meta epitomized tokenmaxxing, on track to spend billions a year on claude etc. [image]
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@nickwingfield
Nick Wingfield
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That didn't last. Out: Tokenmaxxing In: Tokenminimizing At least at Meta per this @jyoti_mann1 scoop https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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not super news for Anthropic since Meta was said to be a big customer and is cutting costs. more generally lots of companies will make the same decision and next year's token budgets won't be the freewheeling affair they were earlier this spring. honeymoon is over.
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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The Information reports that Meta is planning to curb its employees' AI spending mere weeks after encouraging them to token-maxx. Meta is on track to spend billions on internal use alone. — Anthropic and OpenAI cannot afford for their customers to slow down. — www.theinforma…
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@jessefelder.com
Jesse Felder
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‘Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed them to adopt AI tools in their work.' www.theinformation.com/articles/ tok...
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@wongmjane
Jane Manchun Wong
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Whatever happened to tokenmaxxing? I thought burning billions of dollars in token usage the sake of it was the virtue [image]
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@p_remarks
@p_remarks
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If the market won't reward meta for anything AI they should just take them entire thing down with them Cut capex to zero and all those bottlenecks go away and market blows up Cut token usage Satya the follower will agree and do it next