Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads Irresistible force, meet immovable object. Tech leaders are under pressure to satisfy growing demand for AI while keeping a lid on costs. That is becoming harder as Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub shift some services away from flat rate subscriptions toward usage based billing . Database vendors claim they can help by cutting the number of calls made to AI models and handling the new workloads...