Study: non-English languages can consume far more AI tokens, with the most expensive using 1.5x-5x more than the cheapest, resulting in a "tokenizer tax" (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.
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