AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI with World Wide Technology

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AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI with World Wide Technology

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For the past few years, enterprise AI had an open tab. Experiment. Build. Give teams access. Put agents to work. Now those agents are running 24/7 and someone has finally looked at the bill. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, AMD’s John Hampton and WWT’s Mike Trojecki dig into what happens when AI moves from experimentation to a real operating expense. Scaling it doesn’t mean simply spending more on compute. It means knowing when a workload needs a frontier model, when it doesn...

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