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Apple's AI Challenger Sale

Tom Tunguz

Enterprises push for their data to be under their control in virtual private clouds, in open data formats like Iceberg, to run AI models in their own environments - the cloud-prem architecture. These models are their intellectual property & a key competitive advantage.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Lift and shift changes can also introduce costs around spiky network traffic or data egress/ingress charges across secure VPCs or Availability Zones. Aligning your SaaS business strategy with SaaS technical architecture is critical to SaaS success.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Enterprises still aren’t comfortable sharing their proprietary data with closed-source model providers out of regulatory or data security concerns—and unsurprisingly, companies whose IP is central to their business model are especially conservative.