VentureBeat June 27, 2025
This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue.
AI has become the holy grail of modern companies. Whether it’s customer service or something as niche as pipeline maintenance, organizations in every domain are now implementing AI technologies — from foundation models to VLAs — to make things more efficient. The goal is straightforward: automate tasks to deliver outcomes more efficiently and save money and resources simultaneously.
However, as these projects transition from the pilot to the production stage, teams encounter a hurdle they hadn’t planned for: cloud costs eroding their margins. The sticker shock is so bad that what once felt like the...
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