Startup says open-source models handle 20% of its workloads at ~100x lower cost
bindureddy · x · 2026-09-14
Entrepreneur Bindu Reddy shares first-hand numbers: open-source models already serve about 20% of his company's inference workloads at roughly 100x lower cost than Anthropic and OpenAI APIs. He predicts open-source will soon handle 50% of all inference industry-wide.
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