Aran Komatsuzaki(@arankomatsuzaki ):The non-English tax is real. Sutton's Bitter Lesson, translated across languages and normalized to OpenAI English token count: Hindi: OpenAI 1.37×, Anthropic 3.24× Arabic: OpenAI 1.31×, Anthropic 2.86× Chinese: OpenAI 1.15×, Anthropic 1.71× Claude’s tokenizer charges a much higher linguistic tax.

Aran Komatsuzaki

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Sharing AI research. Early work on AI (GPT-J, LAION, scaling, MoE). Ex ML PhD (GT) & Google.

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Aran Komatsuzaki@arankomatsuzaki

2026.04.28 13:54

The non-English tax is real. Sutton's Bitter Lesson, translated across languages and normalized to OpenAI English token count: Hindi: OpenAI 1.37×, Anthropic 3.24× Arabic: OpenAI 1.31×, Anthropic 2.86× Chinese: OpenAI 1.15×, Anthropic 1.71× Claude’s tokenizer charges a much higher linguistic tax.