The AI Bill Is Too Damn High: Tokenomics 101 — Eugene Cheah, Featherless AI

Eugene Cheah, CEO of Featherless AI, presents a four-step framework for cutting AI inference costs at scale: measure token spend by team and workload, right-size models through evals, classifiers, and fine-tuning, buy GPU capacity with an understanding of the speed-versus-cost tradeoff, and check whether organizational processes can absorb the extra output.