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Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

A Netflix engineer developed Project Headroom, an open-source application designed to reduce the cost of running large language models by optimizing GPU memory usage. The tool, which the creator released publicly, aims to help organizations slash their AI infrastructure bills without sacrificing performance.

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