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New compression technique
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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Saves input tokens and uses more output because of OCR, and output is priced way higher.
It's an accounting trick. It uses a different budget....
Also if you're doing anything multi-prompt, that output is re-used as (luckily cached) input tokens for the next prompt anyway lol