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Uber称AI用量暴增9.4倍但总支出已稳定，通过模型路由、token上限和开源模型降本
Uber超大市值主体，事件本质是公司官方博客+Axios报道的内部AI降本实践分享，未披露任何新的财务指引变化、收入/利润影响、订单或合同；未点名具体AI供应商/模型厂商；'开源模型使用增加'仅是泛化趋势描述，无法映射到具体可交易标的的增量收入。经验megacap-soft-catalyst-materiality直接适用：营销/内部实践分享类软催化，无金额增量，默认不做。
📄 原文Axios AI & Machine Learning↗ 原文
Exclusive: Uber cuts AI costs even as usage jumps
After burning through its IT budget in the first quarter of the year, Uber has now stabilized its AI bills even as usag…
不做 Uber Technologies（UBER.US）
超大市值主体的内部AI降本实践分享（官方博客+Axios报道），无收入/利润/指引变化，未点名具体供应商，无金额增量，无法建立对任何可交易标的的因果增量。属于典型megacap软催化，不可交易。
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结论摘要
Uber向Axios分享其AI成本优化经验（用量增9.4倍但支出稳定），方法包括模型路由、token上限、prompt缓存和开源模型。这是企业内部工程实践的博客式传播，不改变Uber的收入、利润或capex指引，未点名具体供应商，无法建立对任何可交易标的的因果增量。超大市值+软催化+无金额增量=不可交易。
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After burning through its IT budget in the first quarter of the year, Uber has now stabilized its AI bills even as usage surges, the company tells Axios.
Why it matters: It's the latest example of enterprises finding creative ways to increase AI use without their bills ballooning.
State of play: Weekly agent requests at Uber have grown 9.4 times since February, but Uber's total AI spending has stayed stable since April, Uday Kiran Medisetty, distinguished engineer at Uber, wrote in a blog post.
- Using the same AI model, its cost per 1,000 requests has fallen nearly 34% from its peak in April, while its cost per session is down 52% from its June high.
- AI agents are now responsible for more than 70% of the code-change submissions at Uber.
- Uber's engineers run more than 30,000 AI-agent tasks a day, and the number of people using AI tools has more than quadrupled, per the company, yet token costs declined.
Zoom in: How did Uber reduce costs?
- Using a router, tasks are sent to the model that's best from a cost and intelligence perspective. Smaller tasks, meanwhile, automatically go to less expensive models.
- Uber caps interactive sessions at 400,000 tokens, even when using a model that can handle up to one million tokens.
- Engineers can see the running cost of an AI session directly on their terminals.
- Uber also changed its prompt cache from five minutes to one hour because engineers often leave sessions idle for more than five minutes.
Zoom out: This comes as companies are using open-weight models more frequently, which can cut costs.
- In a post on X, Uber chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli listed experimentation with open-weight models as one of the factors driving down AI bills for the company.
- "We continuously evaluate new models and deploy the best option for each use case," he added.
Flashback: This comes after Uber's CTO said in April that Uber had blown through its 2026 AI budget in an interview with The Information.
- In August, he changed his tune, saying, "We're coming to the end of the so-called tokenmaxxing era."
The bottom line: Uber's AI experience shows how enterprise AI usage is evolving.
Why it matters: It's the latest example of enterprises finding creative ways to increase AI use without their bills ballooning.
State of play: Weekly agent requests at Uber have grown 9.4 times since February, but Uber's total AI spending has stayed stable since April, Uday Kiran Medisetty, distinguished engineer at Uber, wrote in a blog post.
- Using the same AI model, its cost per 1,000 requests has fallen nearly 34% from its peak in April, while its cost per session is down 52% from its June high.
- AI agents are now responsible for more than 70% of the code-change submissions at Uber.
- Uber's engineers run more than 30,000 AI-agent tasks a day, and the number of people using AI tools has more than quadrupled, per the company, yet token costs declined.
Zoom in: How did Uber reduce costs?
- Using a router, tasks are sent to the model that's best from a cost and intelligence perspective. Smaller tasks, meanwhile, automatically go to less expensive models.
- Uber caps interactive sessions at 400,000 tokens, even when using a model that can handle up to one million tokens.
- Engineers can see the running cost of an AI session directly on their terminals.
- Uber also changed its prompt cache from five minutes to one hour because engineers often leave sessions idle for more than five minutes.
Zoom out: This comes as companies are using open-weight models more frequently, which can cut costs.
- In a post on X, Uber chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli listed experimentation with open-weight models as one of the factors driving down AI bills for the company.
- "We continuously evaluate new models and deploy the best option for each use case," he added.
Flashback: This comes after Uber's CTO said in April that Uber had blown through its 2026 AI budget in an interview with The Information.
- In August, he changed his tune, saying, "We're coming to the end of the so-called tokenmaxxing era."
The bottom line: Uber's AI experience shows how enterprise AI usage is evolving.
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