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Applied AI·August 27, 2026·1 min read

AI has exposed the biggest knowledge gap in business. Hint: it isn't technical

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The real AI gap isn’t model know-how, it’s organizational literacy—who owns workflows, risk, and change management around these tools. If your AI program lives only in IT or a lab, you’re likely underutilizing it and overexposed on governance.

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Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic

A $10B-per-year internal projection for third-party models underscores how fluid "build vs buy" is at frontier scale—public rhetoric and procurement math can diverge sharply. If you're a platform or large buyer, assume similar quiet optionality from your peers and design your own stack so you can pivot providers without rewriting everything.