On July 18, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the famous futurist and “father of the Silicon Valley spirit” Kevin Kelly said in an interview with the media that if one day everyone starts to care about the cost of tokens, but because of the existence of an open source model, it is an advantage for Chinese AI. Kevin Kelly believes that China's open source model is a great experiment. “I'm very happy to see China moving in this direction.” Kevin Kelly mentioned that the cost of token consumption is becoming more and more important, and currently people don't seem to care about the cost. “But I think when we consume this huge amount of tokens all the time, everyone will care. If you can provide only one-tenth of Anthropic's cost, then it will disrupt the situation.” However, Kevin Kelly also cautioned that the open source model requires sufficient capital to maintain operation, because it is not as profitable as the closed source model, and “it takes a huge amount of money to build these big models.” “I don't know now that people don't care about costs... If people don't want to pay more, the cost of tokens becomes critical, then because China has an open source model, many will go to China.” Kevin Kelly said.

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