A Visit to the AI Model Retirement Home
THE SO WHAT
“Model retirement homes” are a symptom of the long tail of legacy AI — old checkpoints still drawing power, maintenance, and sometimes revenue. Teams should inventory which models they’re actually using versus just hosting, and treat decommissioning as a cost and risk lever, not an afterthought.
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