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China's tech giants adopt AI tokens as corporate currency amid price war

Chinese tech giants like ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent are increasingly using AI tokens as a form of corporate currency to track and bill AI service usage. Employees are encouraged to integrate AI into their daily tasks, with token consumption becoming a metric for AI literacy. This trend is amplified by a price war among AI providers, such as DeepSeek, which has significantly reduced the cost of its V4-Pro model, making AI more accessible and affordable within these corporations. AI

IMPACT AI tokenization is becoming a key metric for AI literacy and resource management within large Chinese corporations.

RANK_REASON Article discusses a trend in AI token usage within Chinese tech companies, not a specific release or event.

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China's tech giants adopt AI tokens as corporate currency amid price war

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Minxiao Chang ·

    China’s tech giants fuel the rise of AI tokens as a new corporate currency

    Every month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new corporate currency – one that cannot buy a coffee or pay rent. Yet, as he noted, that staggering volume “doesn’t even put me near the top of the consumption rankings in my depa…