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Companies Start Routing Between Models Instead of Picking One
Organisations are sending each request to whichever model suits it, which lowers cost and quietly turns model selection into a piece of infrastructure somebody has to own.
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Companies Are Paying More to Watch Their Software Than to Run It
Logging, metrics and tracing bills have grown faster than the infrastructure they monitor. Engineering teams are discovering that the instrumentation is now a line item that needs its own budget review.
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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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Software Buyers Discover They Own Too Many Tools
A decade of frictionless departmental purchasing produced portfolios nobody inventoried. The consolidation now underway is being run by procurement, not engineering.