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The total cost of ownership (TCO) framework includes the direct costs of GPU compute procurement or cloud service subscriptions, as well as hidden inputs such as data cleaning and labeling, model fine-tuning and maintenance, system integration, employee training, security and compliance audits, and error-correction costs.
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