Ship fast, optimize later: Top AI engineers don't care about cost — they're prioritizing deployment

Across industries, rising compute expenses are often cited as a barrier to AI adoption — but leading companies are finding that cost is no longer the real constraint. <br /> <br /> The tougher challenges (and the ones top of mind for many tech leaders)? Latency, flexibility and capacity.<br /> <br /> At Wonder, for instance, AI adds a mere few centers per order; the food delivery and takeout company is much more concerned with cloud capacity with skyrocketing demands. Recursion, for its part, has been focused on balancing small and larger-scale training and deployment via on-premises clusters and the cloud; this has afforded the biotech company flexibility for rapid experimentation.<br /> <br /> The companies’ true in-the-wild experiences highlight a [...]