On Monday, Accenture and Google Cloud launched a new business group whose headline is not software but people: a planned workforce of a thousand "forward deployed engineers" who sit inside client companies and build the AI for them. The most capable software company in the world has just said, in its own press release, that its enterprise AI does not install itself.

Yesterday's episode was about an airport that keeps its AI engineers in-house so the knowledge stays in the building. Today is the counter-bet: the supply side wagering that most companies will rent those people instead.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• What was actually announced, stripped of the adjectives: nearly fifty thousand Google Cloud-skilled staff already, a thousand-person forward-deployed workforce to be established, and four stated priorit ...