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After blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in months, Uber CTO says ‘We’re coming to the end of the so-called ‘tokenmaxxing’ era’
Fortune·August 7, 2026·1 min read

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Uber's CTO indicated that the company rapidly exhausted its AI budget for 2026, signaling a shift away from the "tokenmaxxing" era. Praveen Neppalli Naga noted that despite expectations of rising costs with increased AI adoption, the opposite has been observed.
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“You might expect costs to rise as adoption accelerates,” Praveen Neppalli Naga said. “We've seen the opposite.”
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