Efficient Large-Scale Crawling with an AI Agent: 3 Days, $175, 3 Billion Original Images
Downloading the originals behind 2.98 billion image URLs in OmniCorpus-CW, I left almost all operations to an AI agent: patrols, rate tuning, creating and deleting machines, incident handling and billing. I only made the decisions. In 79 hours it saved 99.6% of the images, 744 TB, for about $175 in machines.