Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

As this short article reports, "the recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy." Basically, what it does is to remove all the extra quotation marks and punctuation in JSON and well as removing the duplication of field names in individual records. It points (in my view) to the need for a better AI pricing model.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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Last Updated: Feb 10, 2026 1:22 p.m.

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