The strategic decision a company faces between building custom AI capability in-house versus buying or integrating an existing AI product or API.
Buying (using an existing foundation model's API) is usually faster and cheaper to start; building custom infrastructure only tends to make sense at significant scale or for a genuinely differentiated need.
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