Serving LLMs at 12 Watts: The Edge-Inference Cost Curve Nobody Budgeted For
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A friend of mine runs a small logistics company. Last year he paid an API bill of about four hundred dollars a month to summarise delivery notes. This year his new handheld scanners can do it on-device, offline, in under a second, for the price of the electricity. He did not change his software. He…
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- 2026-10-29 09:23 · DEV Community — AI
Serving LLMs at 12 Watts: The Edge-Inference Cost Curve Nobody Budgeted For