Kevin Kelly: If Token costs are crucial in the future, China's open source model will be very advantageous

According to the Paper News, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Kevin Kelly, a well-known futurist and "father of the Silicon Valley Spirit", said in an interview with the media that if one day everyone starts to care about the cost of Token, but Because the existence of open source models is an advantage for China AI.<br /> Kevin Kelly mentioned that the cost of Token consumption is becoming more and more important, and at the moment, people don't seem to care about the cost,"But I think when we consume such a huge amount of tokens all the time, everyone will become concerned (cost). If you can provide only one-tenth of the cost of Anthropic, it will overturn the situation."<br /> However, Kevin Kelly also warned that the open source model requires enough money to keep it running because it is not as profitable as the closed-source model."Building these big models requires huge amounts of money."