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Meta plans to impose limits on AI tokens usage as costs run into billions
- According to a memo sent to employees, Meta plans to track AI tokens usage and flag unusual spending spikes.
- Meta is also encouraging employees to rely less on third-party AI tools for coding and make greater use of internal tools such as MetaCode.
- Apparenty, Meta is on track to spend billions of dollars on internal AI use alone in 2026.
- In a seperate memo, Zuckerberg told employees that they made mistakes in the recent AI workforce shift and that the 7,000 employees transferred to the newly created AI initiatives serve as a backup plan if they make mistakes in some places.
Assessment
Rising internal AI token costs could offset part of the savings from Meta’s workforce reductions, but may be there will be tailwinds as we move forward.