Why the AI market is shifting
The AI revolution is getting expensive. Ben Norris (AI Engineer at Civo) breaks down a staggering statistic: AI token usage has jumped from 9.8 trillion to 1.3 quadrillion in just under two years—a 130x increase. As businesses scale, the "closed source" premium is becoming a bottleneck. Watch as Ben explains why enterprises are turning toward democratized, open-source AI and smaller vendors like relaxAI to maintain power at a fraction of the cost.