Kevin Kelly: If token costs are crucial in the future, Chinese open-source models will have a significant advantage.

TechFlow News, July 18, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, famous futurist and "Father of the Silicon Valley Spirit" Kevin Kelly stated in an interview with media that if one day everyone starts caring about Token (tokens) costs, but due to the existence of open-source models, it is an advantage for China's AI. Kevin Kelly mentioned that Token (tokens) consumption costs are becoming increasingly important, and currently everyone seems not to care about costs, "But I think, when we are consuming such a huge amount of Tokens all the time, everyone will start caring (about costs), if you can provide costs that are only one-tenth of Anthropic's, then it will overturn the situation." However, Kevin Kelly also reminded that the open-source model needs sufficient funds to maintain operations, because it is not as profitable as the closed-source model, "Building these large models requires huge funds." (Jin10)