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Optimise Your AI Stack - Training to Cut AI Cost

This three-hour workshop, run by the AI Realist meetup group, works through the cost side of building with AI. Participants audit their own stack, compare local models with public APIs, and look at how tokens are billed, why the same task c

Starts

2026-09-24T15:00:00+00:00

Organizer

AI Realist: AI Without Hype

Location

Online event

This three-hour workshop, run by the AI Realist meetup group, works through the cost side of building with AI. Participants audit their own stack, compare local models with public APIs, and look at how tokens are billed, why the same task can cost ten times more under one approach than another, and what is given up when optimising for price. Four practical challenges put the material to use, covering model selection and the trade-offs between quality, privacy and cost across providers.