As AI begins to make its way into the Enterprise, how will the experimentation, adoption and operations of AI impact 2025 and beyond IT budgets? 

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WHERE WILL IT BUDGETS MOST LIKELY BE IMPACTED BY AI IN 2025-2026?

• Is your focus on human-augmented capabilities or human-replacement capabilities? 
• If you’re buying AI as part of SaaS services, will the pricing be seat-based (human-augmented) or usage-based (human-replacement), or some combination of both? 
• Are you directly paying for AI-capabilities, or is AI being positioned as “free”, but the other services are becoming more expensive?
• Are you expanding your predictive AI projects (and data-science teams), or primarily focused on GenAI related projects? 
• Are you buying AI resources from the cloud providers, or from AI-specific hosting providers, or buying GPUs for private-cloud usage? 
• Are you planning to use standard AI tools, or do you plan to training/align your own models with your data?
• Do you have a cost-control capability for your AI projects yet?
• What are your success-criteria for POCs, Experiments, Trials? 
• Are you upskilling existing staff, or hiring AI-specific staff? Or using external consulting? 

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