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Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomics Foundation For "Economics & ROI Of AI Value"

The Linux Foundation has launched the Tokenomics Foundation to establish open, vendor-neutral industry standards, benchmarks, and best practices for the economics of AI, backed by 30 initial members including Accenture, IBM, and JPMorganChase. The foundation aims to address challenges in tracking AI ROI by replacing fragmented vendor pricing with standard methods for measuring total cost of ownership and value, and will deliver token cost telemetry in the FOCUS specification.

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Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomics Foundation For "Economics & ROI Of AI Value"
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Last month the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation members continue ramping up their AI plays under the Linux Foundation umbrella with their newest initiative being the Tokenomics Foundation. With the Tokenomics Foundation they are working to define the economics and return on investment (ROI) of AI value.

The announcement of the Tokenomics Foundation is summarized as:

Among the founding members for this new Tokenomics Foundation include "

Those curious can learn more via the

launched the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agentsas their latest AI play. That followed other "AI" initiatives fromdealing with AI exploitstoAI asset and data exchange. Today they have another AI foray being announced with the creation of the Tokenomics Foundation.The Linux Foundation members continue ramping up their AI plays under the Linux Foundation umbrella with their newest initiative being the Tokenomics Foundation. With the Tokenomics Foundation they are working to define the economics and return on investment (ROI) of AI value.

The announcement of the Tokenomics Foundation is summarized as:

"- The Linux Foundation has launched the Tokenomics Foundation to establish open, vendor-neutral industry standards, benchmarks and best practices for the economics of AI.

  • Backed by 30 initial members, the foundation will address the challenges of tracking the ROI of AI, replacing fragmented vendor pricing with a standard way to measure the true total cost of ownership.

  • The roadmap will aim to create shared language and measurement: defining tokenomics and the value metrics for AI ROI, creating AI Value Frameworks to measure business impact, vendor-neutral models for the full cost of AI, establishing standard methods for measuring cost to serve and the value AI actually returns, delivering token cost telemetry in the FOCUS specification and building the education and certification practitioners need."

Among the founding members for this new Tokenomics Foundation include "

Accenture, BNY, Broadcom, Calero, Cast.ai, DoiT, Finout, Flexera, GoDaddy, Greenpixie, Hitachi, IBM, JPMorganChase, Kion, Lenovo, Nebius, North Cloud, Oracle, Pay-i, Pointfive, Revenium, SAP, ServiceNow, SHI, Stacklet, Vantage, WWT, XOsphere and Yarken."Those curious can learn more via the

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