NVIDIA Shows Blackwell Slashing AI Inference Costs By 10X With Open Models

Achieving that 10x cost reduction is challenging, though, and it requires a huge up-front expenditure on Blackwell hardware.
Network World

Nvidia claims 10x cost savings with open-source inference models

Nvidia noted that cost per token went from 20 cents on the older Hopper platform to 10 cents on Blackwell. Moving to Blackwell’s native low-precision NVFP4 format further reduced the cost to just 5 ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...
MacRumors

OpenAI Launches o3-mini, a Cost-Efficient Reasoning Model Rivaling DeepSeek

OpenAI today released o3-mini, a new, more cost efficient model that's available for both ChatGPT and the OpenAI API starting today. OpenAI previewed o3-mini in December, but it is ready at a time ...