Author: Nick Patience

CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026 Forge Brings Frontier Lab RL to Every AI Team
October 6, 2026

CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026: Forge Brings Frontier Lab RL to Every AI Team

Brendan Burke and Nick Patience of Futurum share insights from CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026, where CoreWeave Forge packaged frontier lab RL for every customer while enterprises enter the AI loop...
Google Returns to the Frontier With Gemini 4 Argon
October 1, 2026

Google Returns to the Frontier With Gemini 4 Argon

Futurum’s Nick Patience and Fernando Montenegro share their insights on Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s new frontier model, and what its defender-first release means for enterprises and security vendors....
OpenAI Moves Up the Stack and Competes With the Platforms It Powers
October 1, 2026

OpenAI Moves Up the Stack and Competes With the Platforms It Powers

Futurum Research’s Mitch Ashley, Nick Patience, and Vikram Rothnam examine how OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to move up the stack, claiming the work surface, the agent runtime, and the pricing...
Why Enterprise AI Budgets Keep Growing Despite AI Safety Pledges
September 30, 2026

Why Enterprise AI Budgets Keep Growing Despite AI Safety Pledges

ETR data suggest Anthropic and OpenAI's pacing pledges function as competitive distance-setting more than proven risk mitigation, and it hasn't cost either lab a dollar in enterprise spend. Keyphrase: frontier...
NetApp Novus, PEAK:AIO and NetApp's Two-Market AI Strategy
September 30, 2026

NetApp Novus, PEAK:AIO and NetApp’s Two-Market AI Strategy

Nick Patience and Mitch Ashley, VPs and Practice Leads at Futurum, share their insights on NetApp Novus, the planned PEAK:AIO acquisition, and how NetApp is targeting AI factories and the...
Where AI Delivers Real ROI: AI-First Integration and Orchestration
September 24, 2026

Where AI Delivers Real ROI: AI-First Integration and Orchestration

In our latest thought leadership report, Where AI Delivers Real ROI: How AI-First Integration and Orchestration Transform Workflows, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines why AI delivers the...
Inside DataRobot's Enterprise Agentic Strategy
September 23, 2026

Inside DataRobot’s Enterprise Agentic Strategy

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines DataRobot's Chevron and Aon deployments and asks whether its agent workforce platform strategy is built to last....
Beyond Raw Compute Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure
September 9, 2026

Beyond Raw Compute: Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure

Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines Equinix Fabric One and Inference Exchange, and asks whether neutral infrastructure solves a problem enterprises have today...
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market Impact
September 4, 2026

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market Impact

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on GPT-6 Astra and what its cyber threshold and monitorability trade-offs mean for Anthropic and Google....
NVIDIA Nears $12.9B Deal for Hugging Face, Escalating AI Ecosystem Strategy
August 28, 2026

NVIDIA Nears $12.9B Deal for Hugging Face, Escalating AI Ecosystem Strategy

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead of AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA's reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face and what it would mean for the...
Google's Vertical AI Bet Governance Matters More Than Models
August 26, 2026

Google’s Vertical AI Bet: Governance Matters More Than Models

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Google Cloud's new vertical AI platforms for legal and financial services, and asks whether governed connectors can finally...
Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith
August 18, 2026

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....

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