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This AI agent startup ditched Anthropic for DeepSeek — and says it’s saving millions

Lindy, an AI agent startup, switched its underlying model from Anthropic to DeepSeek and reports saving millions of dollars in inference costs. The company made the change to address the rising expense of running AI models at scale, a challenge that has become a major barrier to sustainable AI deployment.

read1 min publishedJun 9, 2026

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