(Disclaimer. I work at Red Hat, which is owned by IBM. But my opinions here are my own. So don't quote me) On-Prem "AI" works and is Good Enough™ so more companies are running Open Weight LLM inference on their own bare metal. Says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. I am not surprised. If you can save 90% of the costs and, more importantly, keep your data and prompts local, err, sovereign, as it is called now —it not only makes business sense, it also keeps the lawyers happy. https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640