FridAI - Taming your AI Expenses

Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast · Jun 5, 2026 · 21m · transcript

In this episode of Business Brain, we tackle a question every entrepreneur is starting to face: how do you tame your AI expenses before they tame you? It starts with a confession — burning through $15 worth of credits in a single morning by running everything on the priciest model — and opens into a bigger conversation about where the real costs hide. We talk about the difference between the static LLM on the back end and the front-end layer that actually shapes your bill, why one giant company torched $500 million in tokens in thirty days, and how much of that spend was pure duplication and…