Episode #26
Model Talk: Which A.I. Model Runs Your Jobsite?
Episode summary: AT&T now routes 45 billion A.I. tokens a day to the cheapest model that meets its quality bar and reports cutting costs by as much as 90 percent, with open models taking a growing share. This episode asks what that shift means for a contractor whose A.I. arrives inside Procore, Copilot, or a startup's product. What you'll learn: - Why a large enterprise moved most of its everyday A.I. work onto open models it can run itself, and which parts of that decision transfer to a builder. - How an owner's "no A.I." clause becomes a hosting decision once a firm can run open-weights models inside its own environment, using Sundt's approach as the example. - What "USB-C for models" means in practice at Rogers-O'Brien, and why portability at the integration layer decides whether a contractor can ever switch models. - How the report's rule to tier the work, not the technology, sorts jobsite tasks into the ones that need a frontier model and the many that don't. Who this is for: - Construction executives, innovation/digital leaders, operations, and IT/security teams who want a pragmatic way to prioritize A.I. pilots. Full report & free sample: https://www.placersolutions.io/product/agi-in-construction
