We Cut Our AI Bill 40x: A CTO's Notes on Chinese vs US LLMs
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We Cut Our AI Bill 40x: A CTO's Notes on Chinese vs US LLMs I want to talk about something that's been on my mind for months: the absurd cost asymmetry between Chinese and US AI models, and what it means for anyone running a production system at scale. A bit of context. I'm a CTO at a small SaaS startup. We process a few million LLM tokens a day across classification, extraction, summarization, and a handful of agentic workflows. For the first year, we ran everything through OpenAI. The bill…
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- We Cut Our AI Bill 40x: A CTO's Notes on Chinese vs US LLMs I want to talk about something that's been on my mind for months: the absurd cost asymmetry between Chinese and US AI models, and what it means for anyone running a production system at scale.
- We process a few million LLM tokens a day across classification, extraction, summarization, and a handful of agentic workflows.
- For the first year, we ran everything through OpenAI.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that we Cut Our AI Bill 40x: A CTO's Notes on Chinese vs US LLMs I want to talk about something that's been on my mind for months: the absurd cost asymmetry between Chinese and US AI models, and what it means for anyone running a production system at scale.
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