{"id":1022381,"date":"2026-07-20T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022381"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:49:48","slug":"openai-cfo-sarah-friar-to-companies-questioning-return-on-their-ai-investments-dont-rush-to-the-cheapest-ai-model-buy-ai-tools-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-to-companies-questioning-return-on-their-ai-investments-dont-rush-to-the-cheapest-ai-model-buy-ai-tools-that\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar to companies questioning return on their AI investments: Don&#8217;t rush to the cheapest AI model, buy AI tools that &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As tech company executives grow increasingly anxious over whether their massive artificial intelligence (AI) bills are actually paying off, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is pitching a new corporate scorecard to measure the technology\u2019s real success. In a new company blog post (via Axios), Friar urged leaders to stop focusing on sticker prices and token costs. Instead, she argues that businesses should not rush to the cheapest AI models on the market, but should buy the AI tools that maximise performance and value.<\/p>\n<p>The framework arrives as Silicon Valley faces a massive enterprise \u2018AI cost reckoning\u2019, with corporate CFOs demanding clearer returns on their investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tech company executives grow increasingly anxious over whether their massive artificial intelligence (AI) bills are actually paying off, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is pitching a new corporate scorecard to measure the technology\u2019s real success. In a new company blog post (via Axios), Friar urged leaders to stop focusing on sticker prices and token costs. Instead, she argues that businesses should not rush to the cheapest AI models on the market, but should buy the AI tools that maximise performance and value. The framework arrives as Silicon Valley faces a massive enterprise \u2018AI cost reckoning\u2019, with corporate CFOs demanding clearer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022382,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022381\/revisions\/1022382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}