Software engineers were reportedly spending thousands of dollars each week.
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Tesla is moving to curb its AI costs. The company told staff that it plans to impose a $200 weekly limit on AI spending for employees.
Over the past few months, some software engineers at Tesla were consuming thousands of dollars’ worth of tokens each week, according to two people familiar with the usage.
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The question with AI is, how much value are you getting out of a token?
If you could make a million dollars with every single token you developed, you would want to generate as many tokens as possible. But if you're not getting anything out of generating a token, spending money on it is a folly.
tesla just became the latest company to cut back on ai spending imposing a $200 per week token spending limit for employees and pushing them to use grok + cursor models - sign of the times to come
> elon's pushing employees to use internal versions of grok + cursor model composer.
> they've spun up multiple private agents trained on tesla data to boost productivity
> employees still get access to claude and gpt via their internal "bottleneck platform".
> this follows uber, microsoft and meta who've now cut back aggressively on spending
note that elon probably operates the largest compute cluster colossus I,II & III so this implies a plot of employees were leaning heavily on competitor models.
@Jessicalessin @elonmusk Not sure if Tesla would put a $$ limit on Grok. Guessing the teams have been primarily using Claude / Codex.