AI costs must fall 90% for mass adoption: Palo Alto CEO

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said AI token costs must fall by up to 90% for the technology to achieve widespread adoption, CNBC reported. He said AI remains too expensive for businesses despite OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol making agentic coding tasks 54% more token-efficient. This comes as rising token costs continue to put pressure on companies' AI budgets.