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A company with a strong AI focus has implemented daily budget limits for state-of-the-art models, shifting to cheaper models for most tasks, indicating a trend in AI cost management.

Talked with a company where, a year ago they had unlimited AI budgets + CEO is technical and very bullish in AI “We now have a daily budget limit for SOTA models. Use Fable and Astra only for planning, cheaper models are good enough for everything else.” Want to stress this is an “AI-pilled” company, and not one that ever looked at AI budgets, before.
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Talked with a company where, a year ago they had unlimited AI budgets + CEO is technical and very bullish in AI

“We now have a daily budget limit for SOTA models. Use Fable and Astra only for planning, cheaper models are good enough for everything else.”

Want to stress this is an “AI-pilled” company, and not one that ever looked at AI budgets, before.

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