95% of AI Pilots Fail. Four Labs Just Committed $9 Billion to Fix That. Here's What They're Missing.
In a single week, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, and OpenAI all launched forward-deployed engineering units — embedding their own engineers inside enterprise clients to get AI working in production. The implementation problem is real. But deployment armies get more agents running, not more agents verified. That distinction is about to matter a lot.
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