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Coinbase cut its AI spend nearly in half while usage kept climbing — not by capping engineers, but by changing the infrastructure underneath. Default to open weights. Route each task to the right model. Cache hard. Routing, not rationing. The discipline is the moat now.

Own Your Own Intelligence Yesterday @thomas_borrel introduced BasedAI in his keynote opening UK AI Agent Hack EP.5 @iclblockchain. Open source AI, turned into products and APIs you control. Builders — our track is live 🏗️👇 https://t.co/tiiR6IsULL https://t.co/NzgGm1Dtiq

This Sunday @imperialcollege x @iclblockchain AI Agent Hackathon kicks off. We're running a BasedAI track. If you're building, you'll want to know about this. https://t.co/qfQXADfoHl https://t.co/nFeDVT9olu

New on the blog: Open Source Stopped Waiting Two weeks. An open model beats a flagship on tool use at a fortieth of the cost. NVIDIA ships open. A global bank open-sources its AI tooling. Microsoft builds its own to depend less on the labs. The gap didn't just narrow. The direction of travel reversed. @TeanaTaylor on what that changes for anyone deciding where to build. https://t.co/LJRUDCXM1Y

The clearest explainer we've seen of why the model underneath matters — written for people running a business, not training one. The @GetHirebased team on what an open-weight model actually is, and why it decides far more than the brand name on the box.