Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost Reduction

Good old mud can lower building costs (techxplore.com)
Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there's another material that can make them less expensive: mud.
Construction, Building Materials, Cost Reduction
6 points by PaulHoule 7 days ago | 1 comments
New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs (venturebeat.com)
Researchers at the Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI have developed a new technique that enables language models to use memory more efficiently, helping enterprises cut the costs of building applications on top of large language models (LLMs) and other Transformer-based models.
AI, Optimization, Cost Reduction
445 points by hochmartinez 70 days ago | 214 comments
Duolingo: We reduced our cloud spending by 20% (duolingo.com)
Duolingo has come a long way since its humble beginnings—in just the last few years, we’ve doubled down on improving beloved features like Stories, and creating immersive lessons like DuoRadio and Adventures, just to name a few.
Cloud Computing, Cost Reduction, Language Learning, Software
7 points by super_linear 110 days ago | 1 comments
How GM Is Going To Cut EV Prices By $6,000 Per Vehicle (insideevs.com)
The race is on for cheap EVs. Seriously—almost every automaker is hellbent on duking it out to get cheaper EVs on the road, especially to compete with cheaper Chinese vehicles on America's doorstep. It looks like General Motors may have finally found a way to cut costs significantly on the most expensive part of an electric car: the battery.
Electric Vehicles, Automotive Industry, Battery Technology, Cost Reduction
4 points by peutetre 134 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database (visualdb.com)
Developing and maintaining internal applications to enter and update records in a database is expensive. Now you can significantly lower costs by using Visual DB instead of developing custom applications.
Databases, Web Development, Software, Open Source, Cost Reduction
171 points by visualdb 164 days ago | 52 comments
Intel to Cut Jobs to Reduce Costs, Fund Rebound (bloomberg.com)
Intel, Layoffs, Cost Reduction, Technology, Business
10 points by wslh 206 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model (wired.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Cost Reduction
84 points by tosh 218 days ago | 81 comments
Why replacing Postman for Bruno saved my company millions (really) (ycombinator.com)
API Tools, Cost Reduction, Business, Software
10 points by Letmetest 277 days ago | 3 comments
Directed energy weapon replaces million-dollar missiles at 13 cents a shot (newatlas.com)
Military Technology, Weapons, Cost Reduction, Innovation
42 points by Brajeshwar 281 days ago | 26 comments
Show HN: Reduce ChatGPT costs 10x with distributed cache for LLMs (edgematic.dev)
Generative AI, Optimization, Cost Reduction
22 points by zaiste 312 days ago | 3 comments