Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
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- The Department of Defense claimed nearly half of its 3.5 million employees use AI, but the Army's DEVCOM soon had to limit token usage due to exhaustion.
- The Army had promised unlimited tokens in May 2026, but the pool was depleted by mid-June, forcing re-establishment of limits.
- Army employees, initially given generous token allotments and encouraged to use more, now face uncertain renewal of token pools after October 1st.
- The Army uses the Ask Sage platform, which runs various large language models like Gemini, Llama, and ChatGPT, for tasks such as personnel reclassification.