SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AI industry has an expensive problem. Startups are now burning 40-50% of revenue just to keep the lights on for model inference, more than double what a typical SaaS company spends, and some companies are reportedly running through entire annual AI budgets months ahead of schedule. What was supposed to be the great equalizer of the tech industry has quietly become a toll road, and the bill is coming due across the board.Today, Pika, the Lightspeed-backed AI vi