In enterprise settings, training cost should be compared with the far larger recurring burden that often appears once a service is in production. For the full cost picture, see AI TCO Framework.
Glossary entry
Training
The process of teaching an AI model patterns from data so it can perform a task or generalise across tasks.
Why it matters
Training matters because it is often the most visible part of frontier-model economics, even though many enterprises will find that inference and operations dominate long-run cost.
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