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Before an AI model can do anything with your message, it has to chop it up. Not into letters, and not quite into words either. It uses pieces called tokens, and once you can see them, a lot of confusing AI behavior starts to make sense: why long chats slow down, why costs climb, and why some words seem to trip the model up.

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