Eigen AI founder on inference economics: cheaper tokens expand the whole market
songhan_mit · x · 2026-11-06
Eigen AI Labs co-founder Ryan Han (Rui Wang) joined the Nebius AI Native Podcast to discuss his path from MIT research to building an inference company.
Key takeaways:
- A smaller open model can beat a frontier model on the right task
- Inference engineering directly expands what developers can afford to build
- Cheaper tokens drive more usage and grow the overall market
- When it makes sense for founders to build their own inference stack
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