Thirty companies move to standardize AI cost

The Linux Foundation launched the Tokenomics Foundation with 30 initial members to develop vendor-neutral standards for AI cost and return on investment. The launch roadmap calls for full-cost reference models, cost-per-call measurement, outcome frameworks, and token-cost telemetry in the FOCUS billing specification, while citing a forecast that token consumption will grow 24-fold by 2030. For teams confronting the break-even math behind an AI gateway, the practical move is to track this specification before cementing proprietary dashboards: comparable cost-to-serve and work-completed metrics would make model routing and vendor procurement less dependent on incompatible token price sheets.