Tokens becoming an officially recognized AI economic measurement unit means that model invocation, API billing, and computing power settlement all have a unified language. The signals released by Alibaba Cloud and Tencent at the conference are very clear: major companies are infiltrating from the infrastructure layer to the rule-making layer, and the development of high-quality datasets will become the next competitive barrier.

National Data Bureau Holds Token Economy Symposium, with Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, and other companies offering opinions on promoting the healthy and sustainable development of the token economy and releasing the value of data elements.
Tokens are the smallest computational units used by large models to process text, code, images, audio, video, and other information, and are becoming the measurement, settlement, and statistical units for AI services.
The meeting stated that promoting the development of the token economy will be incorporated into the work system, with continuous tracking, research, and absorption of suggestions from all sectors of society, focusing on high-quality data set construction and the national integrated computing power network, to advance the reform of market-based allocation of data elements and promote high-quality development of the token economy.