Some customers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on AI.
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Databricks is launching new tools to help companies cap AI costs, after finding customers had accidentally spent tens of millions of dollars on their broader AI bills in a single month.
Why it matters: AI agents are making corporate software bills harder to predict, and Databricks wants to be the layer companies use to keep them under control.
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