Most AI teams still buy inference like they are buying software from 1 vendor.

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-05-28

Rohan Paul promotes The Grid AI as an intelligent inference router that reduces AI spending by dynamically routing tasks to the cheapest capable model instead of locking into a single vendor at fixed rates.

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Ultra-Low Latency LLM Inference: Benchmarks and Emerging Enterprise Pricing Tier

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Topics: ai-inferencellm-cost-optimizationai-infrastructuremulti-model-routing

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Most AI teams use a single inference vendor and pay fixed prices regardless of task complexity.
Cheaper models are capable of handling a significant portion of AI workloads that teams currently overpay for.
The Grid AI dynamically routes inference across multiple models to reduce costs.

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Most AI teams still buy inference like they are buying software from 1 vendor. They pick a model, accept the fixed price, wire it into the app, and keep paying that rate even when cheaper models could handle the same work.