Cortex Signals: FinOps and AI From Cost to Value (part 1)

FinOps and AI, Part 1: What FinOps actually means, and why AI is changing the rules. Sanjay Dandeker sits down with Alice Keal, senior delivery consultant leading Cortex Reply's AI and FinOps offerings, and Charmaine Fong, an AI engineer currently working within a mature FinOps team at a global bank. Together they cover: • What FinOps is, and why it's about value, not just cost-cutting • Centralised versus decentralised FinOps models, and who owns cost accountability • Why the FinOps Foundation broadened its mission from cloud cost to the value of technology as a whole • How AI billing fundamentally differs from cloud, with new cost drivers like model selection, use case complexity and token consumption • Why the pace of AI model lifecycles, from release to deprecation, makes cost tracking harder than traditional software Part 2 continues the conversation, looking at how to measure AI's value and where FinOps teams are headed next. Subscribe to Cortex Signals for more conversations on AI, data and technology strategy.