The Handshake Became Its Own Conference
Today’s news: the AI MSP race is heating up. A major IT firm is teaming up with the two biggest model vendors for a large-scale AI-transformation conference. An MSP, a managed service provider, is the company that runs and looks after your AI on your behalf. The model maker never meets the customer directly, and the IT firm never builds the model itself, so the two shake hands and put up a stage. In the strip the handshake refuses to end, and a customer in the crowd asks the only question that matters: whose server room is the data actually in? The official answer is not a server room. It is an invitation to the next conference.
Source: AI MSP 경쟁 격화…삼성SDS, 오픈AI·앤트로픽과 손잡고 대규모 AX 콘퍼런스 연다 · bespin
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What this means for ThakiCloud
When the conference hall is bigger than the server room, something is structurally off. The AI-transformation stage is all handshake and banner, while the one question that actually matters, where the AI runs and whose building it lives in, rarely makes the agenda. ThakiCloud’s answer is to stop renting stages and start moving the server room in. Paxis orchestration and Metis inference run inside your own building, and the managed-service part ends at your front door. Keys and plugs stay in your pocket, and the remote control needs no conference.
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