Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost Reduction

Tesla celebrates key milestone for 4680 battery cell production cost (teslarati.com)
Tesla has highlighted an important 4680 battery cell milestone in recent weeks, noting that its Texas manufacturing team for the hardware has scaled production enough to outpace the cost-effectiveness of outside suppliers.
Tesla, Battery Technology, Manufacturing, Cost Reduction
14 points by ksec 19 days ago | 7 comments
Ant Group reportedly reduces AI costs 20% with Chinese chips (tomshardware.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, China, Cost Reduction
3 points by giuliomagnifico 33 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly (techstartups.com)
Amazon is set to cut around 14,000 managerial positions by early 2025, aiming to save between $2.1 billion and $3.6 billion annually.
Amazon, Layoffs, Business, Technology, Cost Reduction
266 points by 05bmckay 39 days ago | 272 comments
We built a modern data stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70% (jchandra.com)
Building and managing a data platform that is both scalable and cost-effective is a challenge many organizations face. We managed an extensive data lake with a lean data team and reduced our Infra Cost by 70%.
Data Management, Cost Reduction, Cloud Infrastructure
83 points by jchandra 48 days ago | 59 comments
Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes (theregister.com)
Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of "thousands of miles" of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a firm that tracks such things.
Networking, Infrastructure, Cost Reduction, Technology, Telecommunications
5 points by rntn 54 days ago | 1 comments
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 70 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 134 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 174 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 198 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 228 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 269 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 282 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 341 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 345 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 376 days ago | 3 comments