Coinbase: Has Reduced AI Spending by Nearly 50% and Is Experimenting with Defaulting to Open-Weight Models
Source:
x.com
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that while the company’s AI usage continues to grow, related expenses have been reduced by nearly half. He revealed that Coinbase is experimenting with an internal LLM gateway to set open-weight models—including GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7—as default options, and is optimizing costs through model routing and caching.