Ballooning AI costs have Canadian startups weighing alternatives

As frontier AI model providers increase their prices, some Canadian startup leaders that rely on them are evaluating alternatives to alleviate the high costs. The news: Leaders from a handful of Ottawa-based companies talked about the quirks of building in the AI era in a panel discussion at AccelerateOTT on Thursday morning. The founders of Pluvo, Fellow, Backboard.io , Compose Health, and Rewind spoke on how they’ve changed hiring practices and become faster at pushing code using AI tools, but