And they want Americans to be locked into paying 50 dollars per 1 million output tokens.

Not only that, they know that the real enemy of big Labs is not china is "home gpu/tpu" improvements. Without government intervention in a couple of years everyone could have their own fable like model at home. But of course big labs and government will not allow it never

On an unrelated side note, I wish we would start saying about "$X / megatoken" over "$X / million tokens".

No good reason really, it just sounds cooler.

Following S.I. notation, we might have Tk for token, so kTk, MTk, GTk etc.