{"slug": "this-ai-agent-startup-ditched-anthropic-for-deepseek-and-says-its-saving", "title": "This AI agent startup ditched Anthropic for DeepSeek — and says it’s saving millions", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "The biggest blocker to sustainable AI deployment has emerged as inference cost. GitHub recently abandoned its flat-rate Copilot subscription in\n\nThe post [This AI agent startup ditched Anthropic for DeepSeek — and says it’s saving millions](https://thenewstack.io/lindy-deepseek-anthropic-switch/) appeared first on [The New Stack](https://thenewstack.io).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-ai-agent-startup-ditched-anthropic-for-deepseek-and-says-its-saving", "canonical_source": "https://thenewstack.io/lindy-deepseek-anthropic-switch/", "published_at": "2026-06-09 16:17:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 17:45:46.904778+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups", "ai-agents", "large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "DeepSeek", "GitHub", "Copilot", "The New Stack"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-ai-agent-startup-ditched-anthropic-for-deepseek-and-says-its-saving", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-ai-agent-startup-ditched-anthropic-for-deepseek-and-says-its-saving.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-ai-agent-startup-ditched-anthropic-for-deepseek-and-says-its-saving.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/this-ai-agent-startup-ditched-anthropic-for-deepseek-and-says-its-saving.jsonld"}}