Palo Alto CEO Arora says AI pricing needs to fall 90% as token costs skyrocket
petethomas
11 points
2 comments
July 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
cyanydeez
burn up the planet and not pay back the VCs? Sounds like a great plan for a psychopath.
freddealmeida
only one way to do that. Opensource self hosting. We get about 1 billion tokens (up and down) for $3000~ including server costs. Great for long running agents. I even point claudecode to it and it works fine. Near fable levels in some cases.