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Two engineers' desks joined by a bridge, one inside a corporate office block and one outside

AI Strategy · Jul 16, 2026 · 13 min read

Forward-deployed AI engineers: the $1.5B Ode model, and when a partner beats hiring in 2026

Anthropic's Ode is valued at $1.5 billion; OpenAI's rival venture raised $4 billion at a $10 billion valuation. Both bet that implementation, not models, is the trillion-dollar business. Ode has 100 engineers and works

Manu Shukla

#AI strategy #enterprise AI #forward deployed engineers

Data-center corridor with glowing server racks and a central glowing core node

AI Strategy · Jul 11, 2026 · 12 min read

Microsoft's $2.5B AI deployment bet: Frontier, AWS and the 2026 race

Microsoft's $2.5 billion Frontier and AWS's $1 billion engineer org are the biggest bets yet that enterprise AI succeeds or fails on deployment, not models. What the vendor plays mean for buyers in 2026.

Manu Shukla

#enterprise AI #AI deployment #Microsoft

A glowing AI core linked by light conduits into stylised glass office towers

AI Strategy · Jul 10, 2026 · 9 min read

OpenAI DeployCo explained: what a $4B enterprise deployment arm means for AI buyers

On 11 May 2026 OpenAI launched DeployCo, a $4 billion company that embeds engineers inside enterprises to ship AI. Here is what it means for AI buyers and the consulting market.

Manu Shukla

#openai deployco #forward deployed engineers #enterprise AI