EXL on designing a serving harness for enterprise AI
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On 23 October 2026, MIT Technology Review reported EXL's views on designing a serving harness for enterprise AI. EXL argues that competitive advantage in enterprise AI is shifting from model capability to the serving harness built around the model — the engineering system covering architecture, memory management, scheduling and inference optimisation. It recommends fixing constraints from the business workload first, then choosing the architecture, and cites KV cache exhausting GPU memory as concurrency and context grow to stress measuring before optimising. EXL also says the harness should make it easy to absorb new models and new hardware, so that switching models becomes an evaluation and configuration decision rather than an architectural rebuild.
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- MIT Technology Review · AIDesigning an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores.
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