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The Inference Economics Reckoning: Why Enterprise AI Costs Keep Rising as Token Prices Fall

How AI Tokenization Works
Insights

How AI Tokenization Works: Models, Costs, and the Hidden Economics of Token Consumption

Jun 30, 2026
Understanding AI tokenization is the foundation of effective enterprise AI cost management. As part of NPI’s Mastering AI Economics:...
Governing AI Token Spend
Insights

Governing AI Token Spend: A Five-Layer Defense Framework

Jun 30, 2026
AI spending is rapidly shifting from predictable licensing to consumption-based pricing, creating new cost and governance challenges for...
Webinars

Webinar Series: Mastering AI Economics

NPI's Mastering AI Economics webinar series helps procurement leaders understand AI cost models, strengthen vendor negotiations, and build...
Art of Procurement
Webinars

Managing the New Spend Frontier: AI Tokens in Procurement

AI is creating an entirely new category of enterprise spend, and most procurement organizations are still learning how...
Blog

How Open Source AI Is Shifting Power Back to the Buyer

Jun 2, 2026
If you’re in IT procurement, pay attention: open source AI is more than a developer trend.  For many,...
Webinars

AI Token Economics and the Enterprise Cost Gap: What Procurement Needs to Know Before the Next Invoice Arrives

Enterprise AI spend jumped 108% year-over-year in 2026, and more than 85% of organizations are missing their AI...
Insights

Hardware Cost Surge Update: An Enterprise IT Procurement Briefing on Memory Price Escalation

May 29, 2026
Understand where hardware costs are headed and how to protect your organization from unnecessary price escalation. Compounding forces...
Blog

AI Spend is Outrunning Procurement. Here’s What Sourcing Leaders Are Actually Doing About It.

May 7, 2026
When we asked 89 IT sourcing leaders from large enterprises what their biggest AI spend challenge is right...
Blog

Salesforce Just Made the “Own Your AI Layer” Argument a Lot Harder to Ignore

Apr 22, 2026
We have been having the same conversation with nearly every client over the past few months. It goes...
Webinars

The SaaSpocalypse Debate: What’s Hype, What’s Real, and Where Leverage Is Won

Over the past two months, the SaaS market has reached a clear inflection point: growth is cooling, AI...
Blog

Will AI Spend Break IT Procurement?

Mar 26, 2026
IT procurement teams must change how they think about AI cost management. This article highlights what steps they...