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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model. Open source models also offer companies more flexibility in when to upgrade.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Throughout late 2024, Microsoft continued to expand its agentic offerings with purpose-built agents for specific use cases.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. “You

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO Business Intelligence

While on-prem, open-source LLMs were considered, they’d require significant investment in infrastructure and might not offer the same level of versatility as commercial models like GPT-4,” he says. Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one.

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

It can connect the data to a variety of LLMs, open source, or proprietary, the company said. July 2023 Microsoft adds Copilot abilities to Dynamics 365 suite Microsoft will roll out its Copilot generative AI assistant across more of its products.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

Other respondents said they aren’t using any generative AI models, are building their own, or are using an open-source alternative. billion company has 11,000 employees and a presence in more than 100 different countries, and has already picked its broadest AI providers — Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce.