IDC PlanScape: Next Wave of Foundation Models and AI Platforms
This IDC PlanScape provides business and technology leaders with the latest information on the rapidly evolving generative AI foundation model and artificial intelligence platform technologies. The content describes the importance of these FMs and AI platforms in driving innovation, automating tasks, and improving decision-making. It further explores the next wave of foundation models and AI platforms, their deployment options, and a crawl, walk, run approach for leveraging them."Foundation models will be the bedrock of modern business," says Kathy Lange, research director, AI Software at IDC. "Organizations that learn how to adapt and integrate them into their business operations effectively will have a competitive edge for value realization."
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- IDC PlanScape Figure
- Executive Summary
- Why Is the Next Wave of Foundation Models and AI Platforms Important?
- What Is the Next Wave of Foundation Models and AI Platforms?
- Evolution of Foundation Models
- Open Source Versus Closed Source Foundation Models
- Multimodal Versus Unimodal Foundation Models
- Industry-Specific Foundation Models
- Deployment Options for Foundation Models
- Fully Hosted API-Based Deployment
- On-Premises Deployment
- Cloud Deployment
- Managed Services Deployment
- Evolution of AI Platforms
- Data Pipeline
- Tuning Pipeline
- Adapt Model
- Validate and Integrate
- Deploy and Monitor
- Considering an AI Platform
- Who Are the Key Stakeholders?
- How Can My Organization Take Advantage of the Next Wave of Foundation Models and AI Platforms?
- Advice for Technology Buyers
- Related Research
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