Jain: CIOs should sign shorter AI contracts as winners remain unclear
Arvind Jain · AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod · Dec 23, 2025 · at 15:07
Glean CEO Arvind Jain discusses enterprise AI budgeting and vendor evaluation strategies for CIOs.
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“What we tell people is that I think the winners are yet to be identified and so experiment with more vendors, do shorter term contracts.”
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