Topic: inference costs

January 14, 2026

AI Costs Rising in 2026? 3 Ways to Save Money Now

Rising costs for AI services are driven by expensive DRAM memory chips, pressure on providers to monetize, and models generating longer, more verbose outputs. AI companies are passing on costs through higher API fees due to hardware inflation and expensive licensing deals for training data, while...

Tensormesh Secures $4.5M to Boost AI Inference Performance

Tensormesh has secured $4.5 million in seed funding to commercialize its LMCache tool, which reduces AI inference costs by up to 90% and has attracted interest from major companies like Google and Nvidia. The company's innovation centers on preserving the key-value cache (KV cache) between querie...

Koah Secures $5M to Integrate Ads into AI Applications

Monetizing AI applications is challenging, especially in global markets where subscription models are often impractical, leading Koah to introduce ads within AI-driven conversations as a scalable solution. Koah has secured $5 million in seed funding to embed contextual ads in niche and internatio...