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AI spend spikes, safety programs

Token spending by a top investor Garry Tan, partner at Y Combinator, now spends up to $200,000 a year on AI model tokens. He disclosed the figure on Walter Isaacson’s The Builders podcast, noting that the cost fuels a…

The $200K figure is a concrete illustration of a broader trend: AI‑driven workflows are shifting from experimental to operational budgeting. Tan’s spend translates to roughly $550 per day, a rate that would dwarf typi…

Funding the next wave of AI tooling Trajectory closed a $45 million Series A round this week, according to TechCrunch. The one‑year‑old startup aims to let non‑technical users train and fine‑tune AI models without wri…

Trajectory’s pitch hinges on abstracting the data‑pipeline and hyperparameter tuning steps that typically require engineers. By wrapping those steps in a visual interface, the firm hopes to democratize model iteration…

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