Frontier AI Costs Too Much. 10,000 Companies Found a Fix
Fireworks AI raised $1.5B at $17.5B valuation serving 10,000 enterprises ditching frontier APIs. Here's what CIOs need to know about the AI inference shift.
July 27, 2026 · 9 min readAI Inference
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JPMorgan Just Ditched Cloud AI. The $117B Reason Why.
SambaNova's $1B Series F at $11B valuation, backed by JPMorgan Chase going on-prem, signals that 55% of AI compute spending has shifted to inference. The AI inference market hit $117.8B in 2026 and is growing at 13% CAGR. NVIDIA's GPU monopoly on inference is fragmenting as Cerebras IPOs at $56B, Qualcomm acquires Modular for $3.9B, and OpenAI builds custom ASICs. Enterprise vendor selection matrix and on-prem inference readiness assessment inside.
July 12, 2026 · 16 min read
Red Hat Bets Kubernetes Wins Enterprise AI's Control Plane
At KubeCon Amsterdam, Red Hat made the case that Kubernetes is the only viable control plane for agentic AI. The 75% AI failure rate data backs it.
April 30, 2026 · 11 min read