Foundation First: Why Model-Agnostic Data Platforms Win
In 2024, two of the largest data platform companies, each with billions in revenue and dedicated AI research teams, invested in building their own foundation models. One spent roughly $10 million training a 132-billion parameter model on 3,072 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The other released a 480-billion parameter model optimized for enterprise tasks like SQL generation and code. Both achieved strong results within their compute class.