Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs

Irresistible force, meet immovable object. Tech leaders are under pressure to satisfy growing demand for AI while keeping a lid on costs. That is becoming harder as Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub shift some services away from flat-rate subscriptions toward usage-based billing. Database vendors claim they can help by cutting the number of calls made to AI models and handling the new workloads generated by developer agents. According to IDC research director Devin Pratt, "demand for the underlying