Hive aims to cut AI agent token costs
Hive is an open-source tool for AI agents. It tries to stop agents from sending too much text to an AI model. It handles simple work locally and compresses long context to reduce token costs. The savings claims are large, so teams should test them before relying on them.
Key points
Quick term guide
- open-source
- Software whose code is shared publicly so others can inspect, use, or change it.
- AI agents
- AI agents are AI tools that can carry out steps toward a goal, not just answer once.
- AI agent
- An AI program that can inspect information and suggest what to do next.
- AI model
- A program that can understand prompts and produce text, code, or answers.
- locally
- Running on your own computer or server instead of a remote company server.
- context
- The information an AI uses to understand your request, such as files, notes, and past messages.
- token costs
- Token costs are the fees paid for the text an AI model reads and writes.
- token cost
- The money or usage spent when sending text to an AI model and getting text back.