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Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

Ep 872: AI Cost Control 101: Why Your Chatbot Bill Is Becoming a Board-Level Problem (Start Here Series Vol 31)

Sep 29, 2026 · 33m

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AI’s all-you-can-eat era is ending. 🍲 For years, one subscription felt like unlimited access to frontier models. But that business model for the AI labs apparently breaks when agents can now run for days, use tools, retry work and burn through tokens. And with Anthropic's powerful Fable 5 model exiting subscription tiers today and moving to API only pricing, it's as imperative of a time as ever to figure out your AI spend strategy. Frontier AI is becoming a metered utility. On today...