{"id":154773,"date":"2026-07-18T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154773"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:00:09","slug":"chinas-tech-giants-fuel-the-rise-of-ai-tokens-as-a-new-corporate-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154773","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s tech giants fuel the rise of AI tokens as a new corporate currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostEvery month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new corporate currency \u2013 one that cannot buy a coffee or pay rent.<br \/>\nYet, as he noted, that staggering volume \u201cdoesn\u2019t even put me near the top of the consumption rankings in my department\u201d.<br \/>\nThat currency is not yuan, but artificial intelligence tokens.<br \/>\n\u201cUsing AI has become part of almost every task now,\u201d said the employee, who requested anonymity as he was not authorised by the company to speak to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3360956\/chinas-tech-giants-fuel-rise-ai-tokens-new-corporate-currency?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostEvery month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new corporate currency \u2013 one that cannot&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}