🦄 Startups & VC Sep 11, 2026 · Stiven Cartagena

$3,000 a month, per engineer: the AI cost problem hiding in plain sight

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$3,000 a month, per engineer: the AI cost problem hiding in plain sight
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For years, the cost of AI was hidden in the model training phase: millions of dollars in computing power that only the largest tech companies could afford. That paradigm is now reversing. According to industry projections, inference spending, that is, the cost of using already-trained models in real operations, will reach $23.3 billion USD this year and will surpass training spending for the first time.



The consequence is direct: an increasingly larger share of AI costs will arrive once compa

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