Every time an AI agent has to trawl Slack threads , Jira tickets and old pull requests to piece together something a company already knows, the customer pays for that work again. Uvi , an Israeli startup that emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $7.5 million in seed funding from investors including CT Innovations, Cardumen, Mana VC and 91 Ventures, says this repeated context-gathering is quietly inflating the cost of running agents on frontier models . The firm says in-house agents built on frontier models, connected directly to six company systems, cost roughly eight times more than they...

Source: The New Stack