OpenAI Halves Its Inference Costs With Software Alone

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Jul 1, 2026, 09:45 UTC

OpenAI Halves Its Inference Costs With Software Alone OpenAI engineers found a software optimization that cuts the cost of running its models by more than 50% — squeezing far more from existing GPUs, with no new hardware. Applied to logged-out ChatGPT, it now runs on just a couple hundred Nvidia GPUs — a fraction of the compute once needed. The savings give OpenAI room to widen margins, raise ChatGPT usage limits, or ease API pricing, per The Information. 👉 theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/openai-discovers-new-way-cut-inference-costs-half

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