Haritha Thilakarathne
Senior Developer Relations Manager · NVIDIA
Haritha Thilakarathne works in Developer Relations at NVIDIA, helping builders understand the engineering and economic considerations behind AI systems.
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AI Tokenomics Explained
with Aishwarya Srinivasan, Arvind Narayanamurthy
Haritha Thilakarathne explains the economics of AI tokens, connecting demand and supply with inference efficiency and monetization. Explore how these factors influence capacity, operating costs, and sustainable scaling.
What you will learn
Forecast token needs
Connect expected product usage with token demand and available supply.
Improve inference economics
Explore how inference efficiency affects the cost of serving AI workloads.
Relate usage to revenue
Consider token costs when designing sustainable monetization.
Session overview
Haritha Thilakarathne explains the economics of AI tokens, connecting demand and supply with inference efficiency and monetization. Explore how these factors influence capacity, operating costs, and sustainable scaling.
Guest speaker
The Gen Academy
Hosted by Aishwarya Srinivasan and Arvind Narayanamurthy.
Aishwarya Srinivasan
AI Advisor / AI Educator
Aishwarya Srinivasan is the Co-Founder of The Gen Academy and a Developer Relations Lead at Nebius. Her experience spans Fireworks AI, Microsoft for Startups, Google Cloud and IBM, where she worked with developers and businesses on practical AI and machine-learning solutions. She holds a postgraduate degree in Data Science from Columbia University and teaches AI engineering, applied machine learning, generative AI and LLMOps.
Arvind Narayanamurthy
Founder @ The Gen Academy | AI Solutions Architect | Ex - Adobe, Microsoft, IBM
Arvind brings a cross-company perspective on AI at scale, built across Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, where he led data science teams and developed production-grade machine-learning solutions. He has built and deployed enterprise AI systems and focuses on translating AI concepts into practical, production-ready solutions. He holds a Master's from Carnegie Mellon University.