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Owning vs. Renting Intelligence: Why Enterprises Are Building Sovereign AI
Community description: Why relying only on frontier APIs is a strategic risk: the economics, data privacy, compliance, and post-training mechanics of owning your models.
Dev.to | Sep 27, 2026 | Aleksei Romanov
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Inference: Executing the model to produce output tokens without mutating or transmitting weights. Monthly cost against monthly tokens for the worked example (25k input + 5k output tokens per task). There are many: A massive frontier model trained on the public internet is one frontier.
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