How this 'FinOps for AI' certification can help you tackle surging AI costs
Published on: 2025-06-09 11:00:00
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SAN DIEGO -- At its annual FinOps X meeting, the FinOps Foundation announced the launch of "FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI." The new training and certification program is designed to equip FinOps practitioners with the skills needed to manage and optimize the rapidly growing costs associated with artificial intelligence (AI) in cloud environments.
This skillset is important now, and will be more important soon. Today you might be paying $20 a month for AI services; soon, prices are likely to increase 10-fold. Why? As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted recently , "We are currently losing money on openai pro subscriptions!" ChatGPT Pro's price, by the way, is $200 a month. We're paying loss-leader prices for AI; it's a reality that can't continue.
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And these are just the prices that individuals and small businesses pay for AI. To really adopt AI into your enterprise, we're talking about cost
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