{"id":1017641,"date":"2026-06-30T07:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017641"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:44:06","slug":"cheaper-ai-is-better-soaring-bills-are-reshaping-how-businesses-choose-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/cheaper-ai-is-better-soaring-bills-are-reshaping-how-businesses-choose-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper AI is better: Soaring bills are reshaping how businesses choose models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley&#8217;s powerful and pricey AI models have been a necessity for businesses looking to future-proof themselves. But now a \u200bgrowing number of tech CEOs are arguing that cheaper options would be crucial for their wider adoption. <\/p>\n<p>Top executives such as Microsoft&#8217;s Satya Nadella, Palo Alto Networks&#8217; Nikesh Arora and Coinbase Global&#8217;s Brian Armstrong have said smaller, cheaper models can handle a big share of corporate needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley&#8217;s powerful and pricey AI models have been a necessity for businesses looking to future-proof themselves. But now a \u200bgrowing number of tech CEOs are arguing that cheaper options would be crucial for their wider adoption. Top executives such as Microsoft&#8217;s Satya Nadella, Palo Alto Networks&#8217; Nikesh Arora and Coinbase Global&#8217;s Brian Armstrong have said smaller, cheaper models can handle a big share of corporate needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017662,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017641\/revisions\/1017662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}