Articles tagged “cost-optimization”
3 articles

Learning AI·16 min read
A 1B Model Just Matched the 70B. Here's How.
How to distill frontier LLMs into small, cheap models that retain 98% accuracy on agent tasks. The teacher-student pattern, NVIDIA's data flywheel, and the Plan-and-Execute architecture that cuts agent costs by 90%.
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Learning AI·16 min read
The $400/Month Model That Handles 80% of Production
Small language models now match GPT-3.5 at 2% of the size and 95% less cost. Benchmarks, code, and a real migration story from $13K/month to $400.
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Operations·16 min read read
Your AI Agent Costs $13K/Month. Here's the Fix.
A production customer-service agent burned $13,247 in one month. Prompt caching, model routing, batch processing, and plan-and-execute architecture cut it to $1,100. Real pricing math for every technique.
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