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THE EMERGING ECONOMY OF LLMS

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The key resource in the new "LLM economy” is computational power, mainly GPUs. Tokens, the smallest units of text processed by LLMs, are the new currency of this economy. The cost of using LLMs is typically determined by the number of tokens processed.