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AI is going to kill us all, AI spend is supposedly slowing, yields are soaring, oil is over $100/barrel, rate hike odds are over 90%, inflation is hot, the list goes on. Yet the S&P 500 is down just 2.5% from all time highs. Price over news and headlines.

AI spend per employee at the top 1% of firms fell nearly 10% in August to $7,205 after a sharp run-up since 2024, likely driven largely by lower token prices and greater use of cheaper models.

AI is still so early, but so bullish. We're witnessing a huge unlock of economic value with the adoption of AI models like Claude, and more recently, agents like Grok Bot. This then filters down into the most bullish of bull points for AI. Enterprise AI adoption increases productivity -> increases enterprise earnings -> increases token demand as a flywheel effect -> increases ROI for the AI labs -> increases demand for AI infra e.g. compute. I recently heard from an ex-colleague that a large consulting firm is increasing their AI spend by 100x at their London office for their back office teams. Just incredible growth really. We can kinda see the enterprise flywheel manifest in the $NVDA earnings too. AI Clouds, Industrial & Enterprise revenue was up 25% sequentially compared to 13% for the hyperscalers. I think that this is also why $NBIS and $CRWV keep signing enterprise and lab capacity faster than capacity comes online too. 2027 capex will be huge because the labs / hyperscalers still can't get enough compute to serve enterprise demand right now...and that's before AI adoption has scaled properly across the wider economy. Fun times ahead with AI.

AI spending among US companies is accelerating: The top 1% of US businesses spent a record median of $7,400 per employee per month on AI in July, according to Ramp. This compares to a record $650 per employee for the top 10% of businesses and $11.95 per employee for the median firm. Over the last several months, AI spend per employee has more than tripled for all these groups. The surge is widening the gap between categories, with the top 1% now spending more than 600 times as much per employee as the typical company. To put this into perspective, the top 1% of US businesses were spending less than $1,000 per employee per month on AI in early 2024. AI investment is becoming increasingly concentrated among a handful of companies.

AI model access is becoming an infrastructure layer of its own. WSJ reported that Stripe @stripe is in advanced talks to acquire OpenRouter , an AI model marketplace, in a deal that could value the company at around $10B. The transaction is not final, and talks could still fall apart. OpenRouter gives developers one API to access and compare hundreds of AI models across providers, with routing, fallback and usage tracking built in. It sits between developers, model providers and AI spend — where routing decisions can affect cost, latency and reliability.

AI is priced by consumption. Every prompt and model call compounds the bill. This is the problem we are solving with AI Spend and Consumption Management in 1Password SaaS Manager. As our CFO Greg Henry puts it, “Organizations need better data and alerts to understand where model usage is creating value to keep budgets well managed as AI adoption grows.” Read more to get ahead of AI spend before procurement gets the call: #AI# #SaaSManagement# #FinOps# #ITLeadership# #tokenmaxxing# #AIROI# #AIGovernance# #AgenticWorkflows#

AI Spend and Consumption Management in 1Password SaaS Manager gives IT and Finance a real-time view of AI consumption and spend across vendors, helping teams understand what's driving costs before they become budget surprises. See it in action and learn more: #AI# #SaaSManagement# #FinOps# #ITLeadership# #tokenmaxxing# #AIROI# #AIGovernance# #AgenticWorkflows# #1Password#

Everytime AI spend grows where I flirt with token budgeting, Anthropic + OpenAI save me Astra had a spike then settled down lower Opus 5.5 it looks like spend is lowered for current usecases Of course people figure out new things to do Spend goes up again ROI keeps increasing

The AI bull case has been solidified with the release of OpenAI's Astra. A frontier model leaping ahead of other models like Fable 5.1 is a good thing for the *entire* AI ecosystem because it forces the chasing pack to keep up or risk being left behind. Token prices dropping is one piece, but increased usefulness shifts the entire demand curve. I think this shift is most pronounced at the enterprise level. When the average model becomes more useful, companies won't just simply use the same token volumes at lower prices. Instead, they'll find new reasons to use more tokens. This keeps the spending flywheel spinning for the frontier labs. In the early-mid 2000s, we saw a similar story with enterprise software solutions proving signficant ROI. AI will be the same but on a much bigger scale as internal enterprise AI budgets increase as ROI gets proven. In fact according to @FundaAI's enterprise surveys, internal AI budgets are now slowly broadening into wider business units beyond just IT and engineering departments. That means there's significant headroom for incremental token demand which steepens as companies start tracking and proving AI ROI with time. Worth tracking companies that display their growing AI spend in my opinion. They'll become the long-term winners in their respective sectors.