#Artificial Intelligence -powered #(Cool) Dev tools are all the rage in Silicon Valley, but the startups behind them have to grapple with the enormous costs of paying for the AI models they rely on. This piece reveals the financial details of some of these companies https://www.theinformation.com/articles/replits-margins-illustrate-high-costs-coding-agents?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-15534&utm_medium=email&utm

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#Artificial Intelligence -powered #(Cool) Dev tools are all the rage in Silicon Valley, but the startups behind them have to grapple with the enormous costs of paying for the AI models they rely on.  This piece reveals the financial details of some of these companies

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Replit’s Margins Illustrate the High Costs of Coding Agents

At Replit, a maker of artificial intelligence–powered programming tools, the launch of a new coding agent last September put its sales into overdrive. Annualized revenue at the startup surged to more than $32 million in February from a measly $2 million last August. In July 2025, it hit $144 ...