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measurement

[mezh-er-muhnt] / ˈmɛʒ ər mənt /


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AI service providers use tokens as a unit of measurement when they bill corporates for their products, and in recent weeks there have been signs of a growing discomfort among users at the high cost.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

This will be done by working with Princo’s investment firms “on progress toward measurement and implementation of that goal,” he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

That manufacturing advantage could significantly reduce the cost of ultrafast lasers while expanding their availability for sensing, spectroscopy, and precision measurement applications.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

All that enthusiasm has resulted in skyrocketing costs for so-called tokens, the basic unit of measurement for AI computing, as AI model providers seek to balance supply and demand and manage their own costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

This model permitted reasonably accurate predictions of planetary motion, certainly good enough for the precision of measurement available in Ptolemy’s day, and even many centuries later.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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