At Global Wave Digital, we work across countries and languages, so a new study on the cost of AI caught our attention this week. AI tools charge by “tokens,” the small pieces of text they process. But those costs aren’t equal across languages. Research from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research found that some languages require significantly more tokens to communicate the same information, with differences reaching as much as 17 times in one model. For organizations working globally, this has real implications for how we use and budget for AI. It’s important to test tools in the languages we actually work in, account for potential cost differences, and ask vendors how their tools perform beyond English. How is your organization navigating AI across different languages?
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