Unite.AIai agentanthropicdeepseek3h agoenergy 121
The AI Detours That You Shouldn’t Be Paying For
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It's not that frontier AI companies wouldn't necessarily put their thumb on the scales when selling us tokens, if they could get away with it – after all, Anthropic ramped up an effective 30% price increase in June; DeepSeek raised API pricing in August; and OpenAI reluctantly walked back a downgrade in its mid-tier token allowance at the end of September. So a trend towards austerity is now pretty clear. Indeed, that thought tends to recur when your AI agent burns through your daily token...