LIVE: The AI cost reckoning hits the C-Suite — 5/28/2026
The AI cost conversation has moved from engineering chat rooms to CFO board calls in under a year. The hyperscaler buildout is one side of it. The other side is what’s happening inside the companies actually paying the bill.
This week, two CEOs at the center of that shift:
» Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, breaks a revenue milestone on the show and walks us through what the AI cost conversation actually sounds like inside the Fortune 500 right now — and how “tokenmaxxing” went from engineering chatter to a real CFO concern in a single quarter.
» Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory AI, on multi-model workflows as the buyer’s hedge against rising token costs — routing simple work to cheap models, hard work to frontier models, and what it means for the AI infrastructure trade if that becomes the default.
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LIVE: The AI cost reckoning hits the C-Suite — 5/28/2026
