... AI costs will rise as vendors end pricing subsidies and complex agentic workflows increase spend per task. Leaders responsible for AI must model ROI at four times current costs; they need to shift to active cost controls and ruthlessly limit GenAI to high-value, transformational AI uses that don’t rely ...
Analyst(s): Stephen Wheeler | Rita Sallam | Luke Parker | Eric Knipp | Lydia Leong | James Plath | Ray Collins
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