DO MORE WITH LESS! That is the implicit attraction of AI, right? In this AG connect article: ‘AI will not cause a jobs apocalypse’, Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, frankly admits: he was wrong when it comes to his prediction that AI would cause an ‘apocalypse’ of layoffs. Dario Amodei, the big man at Anthropic, also tempers the "job impact"—thus CEOs should read: (much) FEWER layoffs—but resorts to the classic ROI trick: if you automate 90% via AI, then the 10% that people do becomes 10x more productive and grows to 100%... right.

The age-old saying "you have to spend money to make money" naturally applies here too! However, realize VERY WELL that the bulk of the costs of AI (LLM) are NOT limited to the implementation phase, but that the operational costs (due to resource hogging of energy and computing power) are and remain truly horribly high. For if performance tuning could substantially reduce these, so many new data centers would not be necessary...

It is therefore NOT surprising, at least to me, that alarmist reactions are popping up here and there regarding the costs of (token-based) AI usage, followed by acute scaling down because annual budgets have been blown up in a single quarter! And if we look at the accompanying chart from the FT, we see that the expected ROI on hyperscaler AI investments is almost entirely loss-making, so the pass-through prices CANNOT go down!

It will come as no surprise that we at QUARAS emphasize that, through "old-fashioned" SaaS solutions, you too are able to do MORE WITH LESS! Without constantly changing sketched "fantastic" future visions, but based on concrete agreements in the here and now!

That is why we reiterate here once again the advantages of the open-source FAMP stack, under which QUARAS offers all online SaaS services:
• No worries your data might (by silent terms and conditions) be subject to AI training! (ChatGTP, Copilot, Gemini, Grok or DeepSeek)
• No hidden costs for or coercion to purchase services you do NOT want!
• Anything and everything can be tailored specific to your needs!
• Serious alternative to mono culture one-size-fits-all online app landscape!
• and... BUILT ON THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR STABILITY, PERFORMANCE AND SAFETY!

We will of course always keep a close eye on all developments here, so hopefully until next time!