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CIOs are an ambitious lot. Not the type to be satisfied with the status quo, they have set big goals for themselves in the upcoming year, according to countless surveys of IT execs. To ensure his team can meet the challenges that such growth brings, he has doubled his IT staff and invested in upskilling his team.
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That’s what a number of IT leaders are learning of late, as the AI market and enterprise AI strategies continue to evolve. LLMs are good for tasks such as summarizing documents or creating marketing material but are often more difficult and expensive to tune for niche use cases than small AIs, he says. “If
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The deal will spell an end to the current one-stop shop for IT services that it offers its enterprise customers, but will free up capital and cash-flow for it to invest in more modern activities: digital transformation , smart digital platforms, cloud technology, cybersecurity, high-performance computing and AI.
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