The hidden tax on your AI ambitions
Every enterprise I talk to right now has the same complaint dressed up in different language.
Their AI bills are climbing faster than anyone budgeted. Their model invoices look reasonable when viewed on their own.
But somewhere between boardroom approvals and the monthly cloud statements, money is disappearing in ways that nobody can fully explain.
Co-founder and president of Cast AI.
Here’s the central issue that people struggle to understand: the most expensive part of AI isn't always the model itself. It's the infrastructure, orchestration, retries, idle GPUs, oversized context windows, and inefficient routing decisions that sit between a user's prompt and the final response.
This is something I call the hidden tax on AI adoption, and it's growing faster than most organizations realize.
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