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Aaron Levie argues "tokenmaxxing" will push enterprise AI spending beyond traditional IT budgets even as token costs decline

He notes data access remains a persistent enterprise bottleneck.

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State of Enterprise AI 2026: @levie on Tokenmaxxing, The Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job 00:00 Intro 01:18 Silicon Valley engineering vs. everyone else 05:35 Are enterprise CIOs actually bullish on AI? 08:51 Tokenmaxxing & why your AI bill is about to explode 11:34 The myth of falling token costs and AI spend escaping IT budgets 17:37 The $5B startup hiding in AI compute 18:14 The mosaic of models inside every enterprise 21:28 Why coding works and the rest of knowledge work doesn't 25:53 The Bob and Sally problem: access control breaks agents 30:31 Will enterprise AI really take 10 years to roll out 32:24 The capability overhang: why faster models slow diffusion 34:23 Data is the bottleneck (it always was) 39:02 The rise of internal forward-deployed engineers 41:23 Why the AI doomers are wrong about jobs 43:43 Headless software is inevitable 46:14 What replaces per-seat pricing 47:37 How Box itself is going headless 49:42 How the org chart actually evolves 1:00:33 Future-proofing yourself as an enterprise employee 1:06:40 Are we all just going to work for OpenAI and Anthropic? 1:07:11 Where startups can still win as the labs move up

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