Private AI Is Repeating Private Cloud's Mistake

Note from Virtified: We have a similar concern; "Build it and they will come" can be a path fraught with danger and wasted time, effort and budget.

By Keith Townsend

During an unrelated Buyer Room session, one of the delegates described what their platform team had built: a representative private cloud with the ability to burst to the public cloud. That’s the reference architecture we’ve seen for the past ten years. IT provides a cloud-like experience to developers through a platform team that normalizes the public and private experience behind one API.

The project failed. Developers didn’t adopt the private API. We’re about to see the same motion with AI adoption and development.

Read Keith's full article at https://thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026/10/07/private-ai-is-repeating-private-clouds-mistake/