Snowflake on Tuesday unveiled a dynamic model routing capability for its Cortex AI Gateway, designed to help enterprises reduce AI spending by automatically directing workloads to the most appropriate model based on cost, performance, and latency requirements. The new capability, which is expected to be in private preview soon, will allow enterprises to define which…
When generative AI (GenAI) first arrived, I was in charge of a large team of data and machine learning engineers. We had built a full ML platform from scratch and had dozens of models in production delivering measurable results. AI was working for us. But with the novelty of GenAI came the hype. Under pressure…
2026 arrived as the year AI ROI would need to get real. After years of experiments and pilots that largely failed to scale, CEOs’ No. 1 priority for CIOs was to achieve demonstrable benefits from AI investments. Under that pressure, CIOs started to feel the heat, with 71% of IT leaders in February saying they…
For most of the last two years, I priced AI the way I’ve priced every piece of software in thirty years of building technology: a number per seat, budgeted once, revisited once a year. It’s the only pricing model most IT leaders have ever had to plan around. Then I started building AI systems that…
The concept of digital transformation (DX) has been around for quite some time now. Many companies are adopting digital technologies such as AI, IoT and the cloud to transform their businesses, operations and organizational cultures, striving to improve productivity and create new value. However, on the other hand, They have introduced IT tools and systems,…
The good news is that large language model (LLM) token costs are coming down. The conundrum: The overall cost of AI workloads is going up. Gartner research predicts that, while token costs will fall by 95% by 2030, inference costs for agentic workflows will increase more than fivefold over the next two years. This is…