Presentation: You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I

Erik Peterson: I'm going to talk a little bit about the bill. There was a lot of conversation about all the great things that we're building. I think we really have gotten to a place where we're building an enormous amount of great things, but the bill comes due at some point. I wanted to share some of the things that I've been seeing, my company's been seeing, and make some wild-ass guesses about where I think it's all going. You all can hold me accountable to that. I can tell you, quite frankly, that it's a mess. Who am I? I'm Erik Peterson. I'm the CTO and founder of the company CloudZero. I started the company here in Boston in 2016. Coming up in August, almost on 10 years. It's been a wild and crazy ride over the last 10 years. Nobody could have predicted what's going on right now, or maybe somebody did. I'm sure somebody did. CloudZero is the financial control plane for cloud and AI. I'll share some of the data. Six months ago, we noticed something interesting happening in the bill. We are here. Really, we are here. This is what is happening. It is…