Prakhar Mehrotra, PayPal’s senior VP and global head of AI, argued at Fortune Brainstorm AI that technology is moving from an "information era" to an "intelligence era," where AI‑generated content makes tokens—the fundamental pieces of language models—the primary unit of value. Mehrotra and Nvidia executives said organizations must invest in on‑premises and cloud 'AI factories' to generate and govern newly produced data. For universities, the shift implies curriculum changes in data science and AI literacy, new demands on campus infrastructure, and renewed emphasis on tokenization, model governance, and ethical AI training. Administrators should consider token-aware budgeting, research-data policies, and partnerships to fund compute and upskill faculty.