AI case study

RevolutSoftware development

2,000 engineers ran on costly commercial AI with no control over data paths. Self-hosted GLM on dedicated GPUs cut AI costs 90%.

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The story

Context

A digital bank supporting around 2,000 engineers who relied on commercial AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic for day-to-day development work.

Challenge

Running engineering workloads on commercial AI services came at a high cost and left the company without control over the models or the data path...

Solution
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Scope & timeline

  • 70% reduction in development timelines
  • 20% faster code writing after Gemini adoption
  • 10% reduction in lead time with Gemini
  • 60% faster code writing with AI

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The company

Digital banking and financial services app for payments, savings, and investments.

IndustryFinancial Services
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Employees5K-10K
Founded2015

The vendor

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ROLE IN THIS CASE STUDY

Provided the GLM 5.3 open-weight model that Revolut runs on its own GPU infrastructure for coding tasks

IndustrySoftware & Platforms
LocationBeijing, China
Employees251-1K
Founded2019

Use case

Revolut's Software development is part of this use case:

Code Generation
180 case studies(+71% YoY)
Proven impact?
Average
2.8Typical
2.8Typicalwithin Financial Services
2.8Typicalwithin Product Engineering

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