Zhou Hongyi: Tokens will never be used like mobile data with a monthly unlimited plan.

According to TechFlow TechFlow, on March 29th, at the Global Unicorn Enterprise Conference, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360, interpreted the recent "Lobster Craze" (OpenClaw intelligent agent). Regarding the question of when tokens will become as accessible and affordable to ordinary people as mobile data, Zhou Hongyi stated: The core of the traditional internet is traffic, and its infrastructure (such as fiber optics) has almost unlimited capacity. User traffic usage is directly proportional to duration and volume. The more users a platform has, the lower the marginal cost becomes. However, AI is completely different. The essence of AI operation is computing power consumption, information processing, and "intellectual cost," following the logic of information and energy conservation: the more complex the task and the deeper the demand, the higher the computing power and resources consumed will inevitably be. It is impossible to complete extremely complex work with extremely low investment. Tokens are a unit of measurement for the intelligence and computing power consumed by artificial intelligence, with a relatively fixed unit price; the more it is used, the higher the cost. Therefore, tokens can never achieve unlimited monthly usage like mobile data. (Jinshi)