{"slug": "the-demo-is-over-making-ai-work-in-production-begins-now", "title": "The demo is over. Making AI work in production begins now", "summary": "Ninety-five percent of enterprise generative-AI programs have produced no measurable profit and loss impact despite spending US$30 billion to US$40 billion, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Decentralized Architecture initiative. Additionally, 42% of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% in 2024, highlighting that competitive advantage now belongs to companies that can sustain, govern and defend the technology in production.", "body_md": "# The demo is over. Making AI work in production begins now\n\nCompetitive advantage belongs to companies that can sustain, govern and defend the tech\n\nTHE hard part of enterprise artificial intelligence is no longer the pilot, but instead, everything that comes after.\n\nThe Decentralized Architecture initiative by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that 95 per cent of enterprise generative-AI programmes have produced no measurable profit and loss impact, despite spending US$30 billion to US$40 billion.\n\nMoreover, 42 per cent of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17 per cent in 2024.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-demo-is-over-making-ai-work-in-production-begins-now", "canonical_source": "https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/demo-over-making-ai-work-production-begins-now", "published_at": "2026-07-22 23:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 23:23:16.800416+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Massachusetts Institute of Technology", "Decentralized Architecture initiative"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-demo-is-over-making-ai-work-in-production-begins-now", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-demo-is-over-making-ai-work-in-production-begins-now.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-demo-is-over-making-ai-work-in-production-begins-now.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-demo-is-over-making-ai-work-in-production-begins-now.jsonld"}}