EventsAI Infra Summit 2026 – Can Optics Break the AI Power Wall by 2028?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from AI Infra Summit 2026, where power-capped data centers pushed vendors toward optics, near-memory silicon, and physical AI ahead of a 2028 co-packaged optics ramp.Brendan Burke·September 22, 2026
Podcast Insight BriefRunaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI MonolithFuturum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models.Nick Patience, Brad Shimmin·August 18, 2026
Market CoverageMeta Reopens Its Models. Is This a PC Play or a Policy Play?Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Meta’s return to open weights with Muse Glimmer and what Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligence letter reveals about the company’s real distribution strategy.Nick Patience·August 10, 2026
Podcast Insight BriefThe End of Token Maxing: Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier ModelsFuturum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by strict agent control planes. Utilizing AI – Ep.Brad Shimmin, Guy Currier, Stephen Foskett·August 10, 2026