AI Is Starting to Look a Lot Like the Early Days of Cloud – and the Real Race Is Operational

Over the past two years, most of the noise around AI has focused on the model race – whose model is bigger, faster or scoring better on benchmarks.

But as AI moves from pilots into the core of products and workflows, a familiar pattern from the early days of cloud is re‑emerging: systems are more programmable than ever, but they are also much harder to…