Ethan Mollick@emollick

2026-04-16 03:41·78天前

AI 摘要

与其采用金本位，我们可以想象一种推理交换标准，即 FLOP。（与 token 不同，这衡量的是 AI 能力）借助一些 AI 的帮助，我估计 1 美元大约能买到 10^17 次托管 LLM 推理 FLOP。所以那杯 4 美元的咖啡要花费半 exaFLOP，choom。

Instead of the gold standard， we can imagine an inference standard of exchange， the FLOP. （As opposed to tokens， this accounts for AI ability）

With some AI help， I figure $1 buys roughly 10^17 managed-LLM inference FLOPs.

So that $4 coffee would cost half an exaFLOP， choom.

Ethan Mollick@emollick · X

2026-04-16 03:41·78天前

AI 摘要

Instead of the gold standard， we can imagine an inference standard of exchange， the FLOP. （As opposed to tokens， this accounts for AI ability）

With some AI help， I figure $1 buys roughly 10^17 managed-LLM inference FLOPs.

So that $4 coffee would cost half an exaFLOP， choom.