Army Restores AI Limits After 100 Million Ask Sage Tokens Ran Out by Mid-June
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Updated · WIRED · Jul 21
Army Restores AI Limits After 100 Million Ask Sage Tokens Ran Out by Mid-June
2 articles · Updated · WIRED · Jul 21
Summary
Mid-June exhaustion of the Army CIO token pool forced DEVCOM staff back under generative AI limits, barely a month after the service offered “unlimited” use.
100 million Ask Sage tokens came with the Army’s annual enterprise subscription, while employees got at least 200,000 tokens a month and could receive more automatically if they used them up.
An internal email said token usage will continue at current levels for now, but warned it is unclear whether the Army CIO pool will be renewed after Oct. 1.
Ask Sage supports models from OpenAI, Meta and Alphabet and is cleared for controlled unclassified information, even as one Army employee told WIRED the tools were unreliable and sometimes claimed tasks they had not completed.
The pullback still leaves the Pentagon broadly committed to AI, mirroring other heavy users such as Meta and Uber that also moved to curb runaway token consumption.