The Economist's Impact 2nd AI Compute Summit - Smarter systems, leaner models: reducing compute costs without sacrificing quality

Announcement, slides

At The Economist's Impact 2nd AI Compute Summit, I talked about building smarter AI systems with smaller models. I explored in depth why AI spending keeps growing even though token costs keep falling; next, I highlighted four levers that organizations can use to bring AI spending under control, from context engineering to custom LLM chips, and then wrapped up with a blueprint for bringing prototypes to production without blowing past every budget.