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Traditional IT investment is mainly capital expenditure (CapEx), with a one-time investment in hardware and software that is then depreciated; AI brings continuous operating expenditure (OpEx) such as model inference, data storage, ongoing training and fine-tuning, and as scale expands, operating expenditure may far exceed the initial investment.
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