AI's Biggest Opportunity Lies In Paying For Outcomes, Not Tokens

AI pricing based on tokens, not outcomes, is causing enterprise friction. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called token cost a huge issue, with customers exhausting budgets in Q1. Goldman Sachs projects agentic AI could push token consumption 24X by 2030. Startups building outcome-pricing layers, especially in India's inference stack, may own the next shift.