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From Maximum to Minimum, and Back Again

The notion of leveraging something in business—capital, talent, research, technology, a process—is so frequently invoked that, like many familiar metaphors, it has lost its expressive power. “To leverage” has come to mean little more than “to use advantageously.” But it’s worth recalling the full power of the metaphor—what leverage really means is having a small number of resources yield a high level of return.

Nowhere is that dynamic more apt than with the use of data in AI as it travels from the “edge” of a local device to the cloud and sometimes back again to a device.

Data-hungry AI can certainly deliver some degree of leverage in an organization. As voracious and expensive as it might be, ...