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- 1Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill●Tom...may I call you Tom...we gotta work on your headlines and URLs, bro... Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill
A game studio offering a free Steam demo powered by cloud AI is reportedly facing costs of around $1,000 per day, forcing the developers to take out a bank loan. Cheaper fallback AI models have caused quality problems, and the studio is now looking at running local hardware-based models to escape the ongoing cloud bills.
- 2Steam demo's AI voice feature costs devs $1,000 a day▼Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan — studio eyes local hardware models to escape cloud limits as cheaper automatic fallback AI models create problems, game uses AI to process your voice and build responses
A studio behind a Steam demo that uses AI to process players' voices and generate responses is facing around $1,000 in daily cloud computing bills after the game unexpectedly blew up during its demo phase. The developers reportedly took out a bank loan to cover costs, and say cheaper fallback AI models have caused quality problems, prompting them to explore running local models on players' hardware instead of paying for cloud services.