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tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze


Slack is work chat's runaway train, raises $200M at $3.8B | TechCrunch
The Slack rocketship won't slow down. The business messaging startup has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms

The Ads Model for Prompts Vertically Integrates AI
Meta's dual-tier AI pricing introduces an explicit barter : a 92% discount on inference in exchange for your data. Applying Michael Mauboussin's insight that prices contain information reveals the clearing price of prompt data : $1.24 per million tokens.
Introducing SubQ: The First Fully Subquadratic LLM
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.

A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Subquadratic has now shared more details about its new model. But some are still skeptical.

Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.

Neo4j Startup Program
Build, validate, and scale mission-critical AI with up to $16K in Aura credits on a production-ready graph database.
Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years - Slashdot
"Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld: According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer's monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers ...

Three-Dimensional Unit Economics: The Compute Cost of Retention
Why AI-native apps need a new financial framework. And a new metric to run it.

Ceartas raises $4.5m seed round co-led by The Sidemen
Ceartas, a start-up that uses AI to provide copyright protection for creators, raised $4.5m in seed funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Upside.
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive

How to Reduce Istio Sidecar CPU Usage
Practical strategies to reduce CPU consumption of Istio Envoy sidecar proxies for cost-efficient mesh operations.

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
