The Cost of Intelligence: A Breakfast Briefing on AI Spend

​A Breakfast Briefing on the Cost of AI

​Most AI cost problems look like this: The API bill blows through the monthly budget in the first week. Your Claude or ChatGPT plan hits its usage cap by Wednesday. A task that ran fine last month now takes three tries and twice the tokens. But spending more isn't the only fix.

​Join Bay State IT for coffee, bagels, and an informative talk on the real economics of AI. We will walk through the cost-of-intelligence benchmarks that now exist, compare the major models on what they deliver per dollar, and show why more context is not always better, why a large model with medium reasoning often beats a small model at maximum reasoning, and where ultra-cheap models can fit into your workflow. You will leave with practical ways to get more out of the plan you already have.

​This talk is for anyone who pays for AI. That includes companies with enterprise Claude or ChatGPT seats or API usage to manage, but it also includes anyone on a standard plan who keeps running into the usage cap. The same habits decide how far your budget goes, either way.

Agenda:
9:00 AM: Check-in, breakfast, and networking

​9:30 AM: Presentation: The Cost of Intelligence

​10:15 AM: Q&A

​10:30 AM: Open networking and coffee

​Space is limited!