Uber, Stripe, Coinbase and AT&T are cutting AI bills roughly in half by routing simple work to open models.

The Pragmatic Engineer reports Uber, Pinterest, Stripe, Coinbase, Ramp and AT&T making large savings by dropping proprietary models for parts of their workloads and using smart routing, with the stated finding that moving simpler workloads to open models is the easiest route to about 50% off. The per-company breakdown is behind the paid tier, so the named companies and the ~50% figure are what's publicly verifiable. The Pragmatic Engineer