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Google Cloud Next session 2025-04-10 at 17:30

Effectively managing AI costs in the era of artificial intelligence

Event: Google Cloud Next '25

Speakers

Brent Eubanks

Director · Wayfair

Bruce Warner

Cloud FinOps Lead · Google Cloud

Topics

AI/ML API GenAI Cloud Computing

Description

This talk delves into the difficulties of managing AI costs, emphasizing cost estimation across various model deployments (closed foundation models, non-cloud provider APIs, and local models). Key areas of focus include strategies for projecting AI spend at both the workload and enterprise level, implementing cost showback mechanisms, optimizing AI spending, and developing business plans and forecasts using ML and GenAI.