Token Usage Surges Tenfold in Two Months: OpenClaw Roundtable Discusses AI Computing Anxiety and Price Hike Logic

Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonlight AI, hosted an OpenClaw and AI open-source roundtable at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum, with guests covering model, computing infrastructure, and Agent application fields. Xia Lixue from Wuwang Xinqiong revealed that token usage has doubled every two weeks since late January, reaching a tenfold increase—growing as fast as mobile data in the 3G era. Zhang Peng from Zhipu AI explained the price hike logic for GLM5 Turbo: Agent tasks consume 10 to 100 times more tokens than simple Q&A, and long-term low-price competition harms the industry. Luo Fuli from Xiaomi MiMo noted the core bottleneck in the Agent era is long-context reasoning cost and speed; model self-evolution has been applied in scientific research, boosting team efficiency by nearly tenfold. Huang Chao from HKU broke down three Agent application bottlenecks: insufficient long-chain planning, memory inflation from multi-Agent collaboration, and risks of low-quality tools and malicious injection. Finally, guests summarized trends in one word: Ecology, Self-evolution, Sustainable Token, Computing Power.