Tag: infrastructure
3 discussions across 2 posts tagged "infrastructure".
AI Signal - September 15, 2026
- CrofAI "cheapest inference provider in the world" gets exposed as an OpenRouter wrapper, routing requests to smaller, cheaper models at up to 20x markup r/LocalLLaMA Score: 503
An inference provider claiming to offer the cheapest API access was exposed as simply wrapping OpenRouter requests, substituting cheaper models, and charging 20x markups. After initial denials, the company wiped their entire online presence within hours of the exposé.
AI Signal - January 27, 2026
- CATL launches sodium batteries: durable, stable at –40°C, 5x cheaper than lithium r/singularity Score: 1910
World's largest battery maker CATL launched sodium batteries with 10,000 charge cycles, extreme cold stability, and $20/kWh vs lithium's $100/kWh. Power density comparable to mid-level lithium-ion despite sodium being heavier, making electric vehicles economically viable globally.
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Researcher testing secondhand Tesla GPUs for local LLM deployment, investigating how cheap high-VRAM cards compare to modern devices when parallelized. Published GPU server benchmarking suite to quantitatively answer these questions about cost-performance tradeoffs.