Wall Street needs a crash course in the token economy ahead of AI IPOs. SpaceX offers a preview

Cnbc · Jun 10, 2026 · 1435 words · By Jordan Novet

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What to know about Wall Street needs a crash course in the token economy ahead of AI IPOs. SpaceX offers a preview

When OpenAI and Anthropic eventually exit the confidential IPO filing phase and make their prospectuses public, investors are going to be inundated with references to a term that remains unfamiliar to many on Wall Street: tokens.

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Why it matters

They're the new currency in artificial intelligence.

Common ground

They're how the big model companies get paid.

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Claim 1: “Anthropic offers its Claude Code tool for paying subscribers.”

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Multiple web search results confirm the existence of 'Claude Code' as Anthropic's agentic coding tool for developers.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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Claim 2: “Revenue in the unit [Google cloud] soared 63% in the first quarter from a year earlier to $20 billion, accelerating from 28% growth in the same quarter of 2025.”

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Claim 3: “Both companies [OpenAI and Anthropic] sell individual subscriptions that go as high as $200 a month per user.”

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Independent sources confirm both companies have $200/month plans: CNBC reports Anthropic's '$200-a-month Max plan' and a web search result mentions 'A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs $200 a month'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard and open-source framework introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to standardize the way artificial intelligence (AI) systems like large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol

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Claim 4: “Its Grok 4.3 and Grok Build 0.1 aren't among the most widely used models on OpenRouter”

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Claim 5: “Cerebras' prospectus mentioned tokens 23 times, and there are 62 references in SpaceX's filing”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the number of times 'tokens' was mentioned in Cerebras' or SpaceX's prospectuses.

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Claim 6: “OpenAI allows some free use of coding models through its Codex app”

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One web search result mentions 'Codex in ChatGPT' and another mentions a merger of ChatGPT and Codex, but there is no clear, corroborated evidence that OpenAI allows 'free use' specifically through a 'Codex app'.

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web search NEUTRAL — From routine pull requests to your hardest problems, Codex reliably completes tasks end to end, like building features, complex refactors, migrations, and more, ...
https://openai.com/codex/

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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 12, 2026 ... OpenAI just merged ChatGPT and Codex, released GPT-5.6, and gave nearly a billion people access to an AI that can actually do work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv0XfyLT3xU

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 26, 2026 ... If you JUST have an openai subscription then you can have an orchestrator running a small gpt model, when it needs to create an SDD and ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/opencodeCLI/comments/1qmurxk/why_sh…

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Claim 7: “Roughly 70% of SpaceX's first-quarter revenue came from its Starlink satellite internet business, and the company's space division accounted for another 13%. AI made up the remaining 17% of revenue”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific revenue breakdown of SpaceX's first-quarter revenue by business division.

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Claim 8: “Anthropic's pricing is similar for its Claude Opus 4.8 model, though it charges $25 for 1 million tokens of output.”

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Multiple web search results (Logicity and another source) confirm that Anthropic charges $25 per 1 million output tokens for the Claude Opus 4.8 model.

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web search NEUTRAL — Input runs $5 per million tokens and output $25, the same rates Anthropic charges directly.What is the Claude Opus 4.8 context window? 1M tokens, billed at the standard per-token rate across the full …
https://reapi.ai/blog/what-is-claude-opus-4-8

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web search NEUTRAL — On CursorBench, Claude Opus 4.8 exceeds prior Opus models across every effort level. Tool calling is meaningfully more efficient, using fewer steps for the same intelligence, and it carries end-to-end…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI charges $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens for GPT-5.5. Anthropic charges $5 and $25 respectively for Claude Opus 4.8. Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro sits at $2 and $12.
https://logicity.in/en/blog/meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-undercuts-…

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Claim 9: “SpaceX has its own massive data centers, with two running in the area in and around Memphis, Tennessee.”

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Claim 10: “Pichai added that over the past year, 330 cloud clients 'processed over 1 trillion tokens,' while '35 reached the 10 trillion token milestone.'”

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Claim 11: “last week, SpaceX said Google will pay $920 million a month until mid-2029 to use 110,000 Nvidia GPUs.”

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Claim 12: “Operating income, meanwhile, more than doubled to $6.6 billion.”

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Claim 13: “SpaceX's IPO slated for this week”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that the IPO of SpaceX occurred on June 12, 2026. This aligns with the claim that the IPO was slated for that week.

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web search NEUTRAL — He is about to take SpaceX public—pushing other AI companies to do the same.Consider that SpaceX, in the lead-up to its IPO, revealed that while it is seeking a nearly $1.8 trillion valuation, the com…
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/spacex-ipo-an…

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web search NEUTRAL — Track SpaceX stock price and see how investors are reacting to the IPO. Follow live price action, market sentiment, trading ideas, and the latest news.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-SPCX/

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web search NEUTRAL — Dragon capsule by SpaceX docking with the International Space Station on May 25, 2012—the first time a commercial spacecraft did so. SpaceX/NASA (A Britannica Publishing Partner). in full
https://www.britannica.com/money/SpaceX

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Claim 14: “CEO Sundar Pichai said Google's models 'now process more than 16 billion tokens per minute via direct API use by our customers, up from 10 billion last quarter.'”

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Claim 15: “A token is equivalent to about three-quarters of one word.”

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While the evidence provides tools to count tokens and explains what tokens are, none of the provided sources explicitly state the specific ratio that one token is equivalent to 'about three-quarters of one word'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI Mode is a search feature used within Google Search. In March 2025, Google introduced an experimental "AI Mode" within its search platform, enabling users to input complex, multi-part queries and re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Mode

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI commonly refers to artificial intelligence, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, ai, a.i, A.I or AI may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Moonshot AI (Moonshot; Chinese: 月之暗面; pinyin: Yuè Zhī Ànmiàn; lit. 'Dark Side of the Moon') is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Beijing, China. It is one of China's 6 "AI Tigers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshot_AI

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Claim 16: “OpenAI said Monday that it confidentially filed its prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a week after Anthropic did the same.”

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Multiple independent news sources (TechCrunch, WSJ, and another web search result) confirm that OpenAI filed for an IPO confidentially on Monday, June 8, 2026, one week after Anthropic did the same.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…

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Claim 17: “For its most powerful model, GPT-5.5, OpenAI charges $5 for 1 million tokens of input... and $30 for 1 million tokens of output”

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The claim is confirmed by OpenAI's own announcement, OpenRouter, and Wikipedia, all stating GPT-5.5 costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5.6 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 5.6) is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI and released on July 9, 2026. It is a family of models that comes in three distinct variants, ranke…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.6

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5 is a multimodal large language model developed by OpenAI and the fifth in its series of generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) foundation models. Preceded in the series by GPT-4, it was launch…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5.5 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 5.5) is a large language model (LLM) released by OpenAI on April 23, 2026. The model is also known by its codename "Spud". OpenAI reported GPT-5.5 benchmark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.5

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Claim 18: “In January, Cerebras signed a deal to provide more than $10 billion worth of compute to OpenAI through 2028.”

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Claim 19: “In May, Anthropic committed to paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for three years for capacity at xAI's Colossus 1 facility.”

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Claim 20: “Cerebras... went public in May”

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Claim 21: “The company says its current chip is 58 times larger than an Nvidia processor called the B200, carrying 19 times more transistors and 250 times more memory.”

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