AI Tokens Unlikely to Mirror Mobile Data Usage, Says 360 Founder

At the Global Unicorn Enterprise Conference, 360 founder Zhou Hongyi addressed the recent popularity of OpenClaw AI. According to PANews, Zhou discussed the potential for tokens to become as accessible and widespread as mobile data for the general public. He explained that while traditional internet infrastructure, such as fiber optics, offers nearly unlimited capacity, allowing user costs to decrease with increased usage, AI operates differently. Zhou emphasized that AI's core function involves the consumption of computational power and information processing, which follows the principles of information and energy conservation. As tasks become more complex and demands increase, the consumption of computational resources and costs rise accordingly. Tokens, which measure AI's consumption of intelligence and computational power, have a relatively fixed unit price, meaning that higher usage leads to higher costs. Therefore, Zhou concluded that tokens will never achieve the unlimited monthly usage model seen with mobile data.