Jensen Huang floated AI tokens as part of engineers' compensation. Sam Altman says they could one day be a form of universal basic income.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang celebrated an analysis that showed his company is the world leader in token costs, claiming the title of "Token King."

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said companies need to be bestowing huge AI token budgets on their engineers.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an even grander plan for these basic components of large language models.
• Altman wants to generate enough AI tokens to power incomes worldwide.

AI and tech CEOs can't stop talking about tokens.