The point about pricing and vendor dependency is worth adding some data to. "Dangerous asymmetry of power regarding pricing" is real but most enterprises have no independent benchmark to even know when they are being overcharged. We track normalized inference pricing across 47 vendors weekly and the spread for functionally similar models regularly exceeds 30x. Customization is a great moat but knowing what the market actually charges for inference is step one. a7om.com
The point about pricing and vendor dependency is worth adding some data to. "Dangerous asymmetry of power regarding pricing" is real but most enterprises have no independent benchmark to even know when they are being overcharged. We track normalized inference pricing across 47 vendors weekly and the spread for functionally similar models regularly exceeds 30x. Customization is a great moat but knowing what the market actually charges for inference is step one. a7om.com