u/waking-up-late

I've seen a lot of memes about companies spending millions of dollars on AI tokens, but what are they? And why are they so expensive? I don't use AI so I have no idea what the fuck is going on. If I open the chatgpt website right now I can just use it without an account or anything, but companies need tokens for it? I'm so confused.

A lot of retro gaming and doom scrolling so far. How are y'all doing?