9 October 2026

ttok 1.0 released, fixing a default tokenizer problem

First reported

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  • A new version, ttok 1.0, has been released as a tool for counting text in units the AI model reads.
  • The update was prompted by a bug where the tool defaulted to a tokenizer (the piece that splits text into chunks for the model) from GPT-4, an OpenAI model.

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