At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
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Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible
Corporate PC buyers haven’t rushed to buy AI PCs but analyst firm Gartner thinks the machines can now do an important new job: Running AI workloads on the desktop to provide a hedge against tearaway token bills.
The firm on Monday published a Strategic Roadmap for Agentic AI PCs in which Research Vice President Steve Kleynhans argues that enterprise AI tools that run on the desktop “have been slow to materialize.”
“On -device AI has yet to achieve mainstream adoption and remains largely confined to developer and enthusiast use cases,” he added.
He thinks that’s about to change as businesses are paying more attention to the cost of cloud-based AI, and especially “Tokenomics,” the frustratingly imprecise science of trying to figure out how each AI service provider defines...
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