AI Is The New Cloud: What The Platform Revolution Teaches Us About Innovation
CIO, Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
AI is playing out just like the cloud did - use the big platforms, build on top of them and let fast feedback steer the innovation your teams actually need.
Artificial intelligence is the most transformative technology shift since the birth of cloud computing.
Two decades ago, cloud platforms changed how enterprises thought about infrastructure. Right now, as you're reading this, AI platforms are changing how enterprises think about intelligence.
The parallels between the two are well worth highlighting. In the early 2000s, CIOs debated whether to build their own data centers or trust a shared platform like AWS. Now, 20 years on, they're asking a similar question: should we build our own large language models, or build on them?