Token Town (why compute strategy is product strategy)

Token pricing is a noisy headline. What matters in production is what you pay per task once outputs get longer, retries creep in, and “good enough” models get deprecated.

This talk breaks down the current dynamics of the frontier model market from the perspective of Notion AI product team on embarking this with Notion custom agents model, and shares a practical playbook for keeping leverage: stay genuinely multi-provider, invest in product value that is hard to undercut, and use open weight models as an escape hatch for everyday workloads that do not need frontier reasoning.