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Inference Costs Move From Footnote to Line Item
Training got the headlines and the capital budget. The recurring cost of running models in production is what finance departments are now trying to forecast, mostly badly.
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Companies Cannot Tell Whether Their AI Works
Deployment has run well ahead of measurement. A striking number of production systems have no defensible answer to whether they are performing better than what they replaced.
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Model Deprecation Becomes an Enterprise Risk
Companies built production systems on models that vendors retire on their own schedule. The resulting migrations are unplanned, unbudgeted and increasingly frequent.