Falling AI Costs Trigger Jevons Paradox, Driving Up Compute Demand

The AI industry is experiencing the Jevons paradox: as open-source models drastically reduce token costs, overall compute demand surges. To manage soaring enterprise AI bills, experts suggest that optimizing model matching is more effective than merely cutting costs.

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