MiHoYo reportedly spent nearly $300,000 worth of AI tokens in about 13 hours during an internal experiment, Zheng Yinhe (head of the AI NPC dept.) revealed at the Alibaba Cloud Summit 2026. One employee had spun up dozens of AI agents — they kept exchanging messages, generating outputs, and cross-checking each other's work, which sent token use through the roof (FYI: the agent chatter was the main cost driver). The burn rate climbed so quickly it became a one-night accounting shock. In the end the experiment didn’t deliver: results were called illusory and unusable, i.e., not fit for product or research use. Observers left with more questions than answers.
