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forward deployed engineers$9B in 90 Days: Why AI Vendors Now Want Engineers in Your Office
Microsoft just dropped $2.5 billion on a 6,000-person AI deployment army. AWS committed $1 billion two days earlier. OpenAI and Anthropic launched PE-backed deployment ventures in May. Google put $750 million into partner-led deployment. That's over $9 billion in 90 days, all aimed at the same problem: the enterprise AI deployment gap that kills 73-95% of pilots before they reach production.
July 2, 2026