OREANDA-NEWS  The costs of large Russian businesses using neural networks in 2026 may reach 237 billion rubles, and the consumption of tokens - the minimum units of text processed by language models - will grow almost 2.5 times, Vedomosti newspaper writes, citing a study by Orion soft.

"Large businesses can double their spending on neural networks... In 2026, the expenses of large Russian businesses for the use of neural networks may reach 237 billion rubles... The consumption of tokens may grow even more this year – almost 2.5 times, to 912.5 trillion," the newspaper writes with reference to the study.

According to Vedomosti, in 2027, the company predicts a further increase in expenses by 50% to 357 billion rubles, with the same consumption dynamics - up to 1.37 quadrillion tokens.