Bittensor-powered inference vendors offer costs at 1/6 of competitors with equal quality
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-25
A comment highlighting that vendors providing the lowest-cost, fastest frontier inference will dominate. Currently, Bittensor-powered providers @engyai and @saygm offer the world's cheapest inference, priced at 1/2 to 1/6 of their competitors while maintaining the same quality level. This suggests a shift in economic value from model labs to inference vendors driven by open source.
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