A better AI model can become available overnight, but putting it to work can take months if an application is tightly coupled to its current provider. The real test of model choice is how much of the surrounding system must change before the business can use an alternative. Cost is one important reason to switch models, but enterprises also need to consider supply chain resilience and business continuity. A model provider can suffer outages or become unavailable due to regulatory restrictions or compliance requirements. When business operations depend on that provider as part of the enterprise AI supply chain, the…

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