The tokenization tax: Why AI costs non-English speakers up to 5x more per query, and how India is fighting back

When Vivek Raghavan saw ChatGPT for the first time, he faced a choice that defines the AI era for most of the world’s population. He could wait for Silicon Valley to eventually localize its models for Indian languages, accepting whatever pricing and priorities American companies decided on. Or he could build something from scratch, optimized … Read more