Flo Crivello's expenses were out of whack, and there was only one way to get them under control. Earlier this month, the 34-year-old CEO of AI startup Lindy switched his company off of Anthropic's Claude models, moving 100% of its traffic to DeepSeek, a Chinese company that makes cheaper, open-weight alternatives. "We did it, and you could see that cost curve go down, like, crash to the ground," Crivello said in an interview from his company's San Francisco headquarters. He said the decision