Box CEO says companies will need to figure out how to budget for workers running up AI token bills

Aaron Levie speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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• Box CEO Aaron Levie said AI token consumption won't be limited to engineers.
• Levie said AI token usage will only increase among workers who properly use AI.
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would be upset if an engineer didn't use equivalent of half of their salary on tokens.

Box CEO Aaron Levie says tech companies won't be the last to see AI budget balloon.

"This will of course start in engineering...