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Token Telemetry: You Can’t Cut What You Don’t Measure

Token Telemetry: You Can’t Cut What You Don’t Measure

by Brian Blair | Sep 8, 2026 | AI Infrastructure, AI Models, AI Tools, Blog, Data Analysis, Workflow Automation

Do you actually know your cost per task per model? If you are an engineering VP scaling generative models into production, that question usually triggers a cold sweat. You likely have a dashboard showing aggregate API usage, but aggregate data is a post-mortem. It...
Meta AI in 2026: Muse Spark 1.3 and the Open-Weights Pressure Play

Meta AI in 2026: Muse Spark 1.3 and the Open-Weights Pressure Play

by Brian Blair | Sep 5, 2026 | AI Infrastructure, AI Models, AI Tools, Blog

For CTOs and platform engineers evaluating self-hosted inference, the math is getting harder to ignore. We have spent the last few years defaulting to frontier API calls for every minor classification task, racking up usage bills that scale linearly with our user...
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