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The Biggest AI Doesn’t Win. The Right-Sized One Does.

.4 watt-hours. That’s what a single GPT-4o query costs in electricity, according to a benchmarking study published on arXiv last year that tested 30 commercial models. Scale that against ChatGPT’s reported 2.5

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The AI ROI Paradox: Marketing's Most Expensive Blind Spot

Forty-nine percent. That was the share of marketing leaders who said they could prove ROI from their AI investments last year. A number that, frankly,

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