Meta Is Now Rationing AI Tokens Like It Rations Headcount
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says Meta is starting to budget AI tokens the way it budgets salaries and headcount, after an internal leaderboard called Claudeonomics pushed employees to burn 73.7 trillion tokens in a month. Meta is building a centralized AI Gateway dashboard and plans formal token budgets by 2027, joining Amazon, Uber, Walmart and Cisco in reining in internal AI spending.