Beijing's first token factory hits 1.4 trillion daily output

Beijing's first factory for producing units of text for large language models (LLMs) has reached a daily production capacity of more than 1.4 trillion tokens, according to the Administrative Committee of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town.

The factory produces tokens, which are the smallest unit of text processed by LLMs and other artificial intelligence systems to understand and generate human language.

Recently completed in Beijing E-Town, the Beijing No 1 Token Factory integrates computing power, semiconductor chips, high-quality datasets, and LLMs to improve the token output per unit of energy consumption while enhancing overall system stability, according to a press release issued by the development area.

Unlike conventional computing centers that mainly lease raw computing resources, the token factory provides hardware infrastructure and software services simultaneously, transforming computing power into production-ready tokens that can be directly used by AI applications.

According to the development area, about 50 percent of computing tasks are completed within six seconds, while 90 percent receive responses within 10 seconds. Performance fluctuations are kept within 20 percent.

An official with the administrative committee said the next phase would connect the factory with green-energy computing bases in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, and Ulaanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, to build an integrated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei computing cluster.

"The token factory will continue expanding toward the long-term goal of producing 10 trillion tokens per day," the official said.