# Nick Patience

> Vice President & Practice Lead, AI Platforms

- Canonical: https://trial.futurumgroup.com/nick-patience/
- Role: Analyst
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpatience
- X: https://x.com/nickpatience

Nick is Vice President & Practice Lead, AI Platforms. He is a thought leader on the development, deployment and adoption of AI — an area he has been researching for 25 years. Prior to Futurum, Nick was a Managing Analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence, with responsibility for 451 Research’s coverage of Data, AI, Analytics, Information Security and Risk. Nick became part of S&P Global through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, a pioneering analyst firm Nick co-founded in 1999. He is a sought-after speaker and advisor, known for his expertise in the drivers of AI adoption, industry use cases, and the infrastructure behind its development and deployment. Nick also spent three years as a product marketing lead at Recommind (now part of OpenText), a machine learning-driven eDiscovery software company. Nick is based in London.

## Recent work

- [Inside DataRobot’s Enterprise Agentic Strategy](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/inside-datarobots-enterprise-agentic-strategy/) (Insight, 2026-09-23)
- [Beyond Raw Compute: Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/beyond-raw-compute-equinixs-strategic-bet-on-ai-infrastructure/) (Insight, 2026-09-09)
- [OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market Impact](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/openais-gpt-6-astra-benchmarks-cyber-risks-and-market-impact/) (Insight, 2026-09-04)
- [NVIDIA Nears $12.9B Deal for Hugging Face, Escalating AI Ecosystem Strategy](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/nvidia-nears-12-9b-deal-for-hugging-face-escalating-ai-ecosystem-strategy/) (Insight, 2026-08-28)
- [Google’s Vertical AI Bet: Governance Matters More Than Models](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/googles-vertical-ai-bet-governance-matters-more-than-models/) (Insight, 2026-08-26)
- [Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/runaway-token-costs-are-killing-the-frontier-ai-monolith/) (Insight, 2026-08-18)
- [Who Decides Which Model Runs? NVIDIA Would Like a Say](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/who-decides-which-model-runs-nvidia-would-like-a-say/) (Insight, 2026-08-11)
- [Meta Reopens Its Models. Is This a PC Play or a Policy Play?](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/insights/meta-reopens-its-models-is-this-a-pc-play-or-a-policy-play/) (Insight, 2026-08-10)
- [From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/research-reports/from-experimentation-to-execution-platform-engineering-for-scalable-generative-ai/) (Research Report, 2026-08-10)
- [Inference Climbs to 71.7% of AI Platforms Infrastructure Spend by 2030](https://trial.futurumgroup.com/press-release/inference-climbs-to-71-7-of-ai-platforms-infrastructure-spend-by-2030/) (Press Release, 2026-08-06)