'We were highly skeptical about the cost of AI': Revolut reveals it cut AI coding costs by cutting out Claude…
- Revolut cut Claude for self-hosted Z.ai models and slashed inference costs by 90%
- 70% improvement in lead time productivity, 60% up for coding time productivity
- The model is reportedly running on 56 Nvidia B200 GPUs with 380GB+ memory
Revolut has become one of a growing list of companies looking to reduce its reliance on Claude, and in doing so, it's reportedly cut inference costs by as much as 90% in less than a year.
But the London-headquartered digital bank hasn't cut AI out altogether, instead it's replaced those costly workloads with self-hosted, open-weight models from China's Z.ai.
By derestricting itself, the company now says its developers can use AI much more freely without worrying about token limits, which in turn has also improved productivity.
Revolut cuts Claude for self-hosted, open-weight Chinese models
Revolut seems pretty au-fait with the world of AI, having previously experimented with Google's Gemini before opting...
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