Last year saw some incredible technology advances. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) wowed us with its ability to quickly perform a wide variety of tasks, from recommending the best recipe to passing the bar exam. For most of 2023, CIOs imagined what this new type of AI could do for their businesses. Late in the year, we started to see providers build real, useful capabilities into their applications.
As generative AI piqued imaginations, something else remarkable happened. Most of us simply assumed that all this cool AI stuff would be delivered in the cloud. Someone, somewhere probably thought about building AI tools in an owned data center, but even if you did decide to run the technology on your own servers, most development would happen in the cloud because that’s where the tools, infrastructure, and required services reside.