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Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models.

Nick Patience, Brad ShimminAugust 18, 2026

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The End of Token Maxing: Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models

Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by strict agent control planes. Utilizing AI – Ep.

Brad Shimmin, Guy Currier, Stephen FoskettAugust 10, 2026