The Tokens
April 20, 2026
Finance wants to cut the AI bill in half; Sparrow: 'Bold'; Duck reads that new Chinese models are a dollar per million tokens, fifteen times cheaper than Claude; Chicken worries if they still work; Raven points out they're 2.7% off the top per Stanford; Parrot has been running them in prod for a month and nobody noticed; Dove asks the savings; Parrot: 'Eighty-seven percent. Also I bought the team a new coffee machine.'