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I have my own AI LLM now

4 June 2026

There was a story on the newswires earlier this week which claimed that a US company had ended up with a half-billion dollar bill as the result of "enthusiastic" IA usage.

On further investigation it appears that this was more of an anecdotal story than one based on actual facts. As a result, many news publishers seem to have "vanished" their original reports so as to cover their gullibility -- although some remain online.

Although AI tokens are expensive, it is very unlikely that any company will have racked up half a billion dollars worth of use in a single 30 day period -- hence the rapid backtracking.

However, commercial-scale use of AI is expensive and growing moreso by the day.

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