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AI models cost more when you don’t use English

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A new study from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research finds that AI models need far more tokens to process some languages than others, creating what researchers call a "tokenizer tax." Speakers of less-represented languages, and languages written in scripts tokenizers rarely saw, can face higher costs, slower…

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