The AI price war has begun.  Big companies and startups, chafing at rapidly escalating artificial intelligence costs , are increasingly turning to tools that tap in to cheaper AI models, including some from China. That’s raising pressure on industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic to lower their prices, a prospect that could hurt their ability to grow into profitable enterprises.  The new cost-saving tools help businesses save on AI costs by dynamically switching among a mixture of third-party AI models and in-house AI systems built using freely available, open-source models.  The ecosystem allows autonomous AI systems, or agents, to use cheap models—including those…

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