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Your AI Cost Model Stops at the Token Price. The Bill Doesn't.

Ari Weil is a product strategy and go-to-market executive with experience across various management and operational disciplines. He brings more than 20 years of cross-functional enterprise management expertise, across every aspect of the product and marketing lifecycle, to his role. His key areas of focus include data security, compliance, risk management, cloud adoption, digital transformation, and modern application architectures.

AI spending has crossed a line that should change how you budget for it. Inference, not training, is now the dominant cost center, running close to 80% of total AI spend for any team with real production traffic. Training is the headline. Inference is the operating expense, and it shows up every time a model serves a request.

The hidden costs beyond the token price

Most enterprises model that expense as a compute problem.…