- Legal AI startup Harvey surged from ~1 trillion tokens in January to about 12–13 trillion in May — a huge jump in usage.
- CEO Winston Weinberg warns “frontier intelligence” is too expensive to run on every task and says teams should match model power to the job.
- Firms are rethinking token spending — routing prompts to cheaper models and facing pressure to show ROI, likened to the “billable hours” debate.