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What are 'tokens' in AI?
When you use an AI like Claude Opus, your words and its replies are broken down into 'tokens'. These are like digital words or parts of words. The story mentions pricing per million input and output tokens, meaning you pay for how much text you feed in and how much the AI generates back.
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