For two decades, we focused on moving data to the intelligence. Now, we’re seeing a massive shift: we have to move the intelligence to the data. That flip changes everything. Your host platform isn’t just an API gateway anymore; it’s an operating system.The Meeting That Wasn’t About ModelsThe meeting that changed how I think about AI infrastructure had almost nothing to do with models. We spent months obsessing over model quality. Then, over a few weeks, the agenda quietly reorganized itself. We were talking about onboarding third-party units. We debated what happens when two versions of the same model disagree under replay. We worried about whether one tenant’s inference could starve a neighbor’s on a shared accelerator. We fought over who pays for a millisecond.