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ByJoe McKendrick,

Senior Contributor.

Without data, there is no AI. Without AI, data is… well, it’s complicated.

Getting one’s data house in order tops the list in AWS’s recently published Blueprint Executive Blueprint for Enterprise AI Transformation, highlighting the urgency of rethinking data strategy for the times ahead. “As large language models and foundation models become widely accessible via out-of-the-box apps, differentiation lies not in the model itself but in the quality, structure, and accessibility of the data powering it," the blueprint’s authors state.