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Open-Weight Models Are Proliferating, But The Platform Race Matters More
Last week, AI startup Reflection released a new open weight model, Beam, claiming parity with leading Chinese open models and at only “a fraction of the token cost and inference time.” Days later, Mistral introduced open-weight model Mistral Large 4 (ML4), nicknamed Le Chonk in reference to its 1 trillion parameters. Taken together, these models […]
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Microsoft FabCon 2026: Enterprise AI Needs A Governed Context Layer, Not Just Data
Microsoft is steadily repositioning Fabric from a unified analytics platform into a governed context layer for enterprise AI. An agent answering a revenue question needs to know which measure applies, how customers and transactions relate, and what information it may use. At FabCon and SQLCon in Barcelona, Microsoft showed how Fabric IQ, OneLake, Power BI […]
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Anthropic’s Pricing Shift Puts AI Consumption Risk Back On Customers
Back in May of this year, Anthropic announced changes to its pricing model. Its original fixed-fee, per-seat subscription model was replaced with one that separates platform access from AI consumption. Customers still pay for access, but usage is now metered and billed separately based on token consumption. Under the previous model, customers were split into […]
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Which AI Consulting Service Provider Is Best For You?
We wrapped up a multimonth evaluation of 10 AI consulting service providers: Accenture, Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, Deloitte, EY, IBM, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, and PwC. It’s available to Forrester clients as The Forrester Wave™: AI Consulting Services, Q2 2026. There are more than 10 AI consulting service providers, of course — […]