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Eli Lilly & Company Built an AI Supercomputer to Ask Bigger Questions

August 26, 2026

What changes when scientists stop thinking about how much compute they can afford to use and start thinking about what they could discover with more of it?That question sits behind LillyPod, Eli Lilly & Company’s on-prem AI supercomputer. Chief AI Officer Dr. Thomas Fuchs sees compute less as infrastructure and more as a scientific instrument, something that allows researchers to work at a scale that changes not only the answers they can find, but the questions they’re willing to ask.  It...

The Greatest Risk Isn't Failure. It's Standing Still.​

August 19, 2026

Most organizations don't fail because they aren't working hard enough. They fail because they spend too long preparing for yesterday's problems.​Retired General Mike Minihan has spent a career leading organizations where the cost of being unprepared is measured in lives, not quarterly results. That experience shaped the Mobility Manifesto, a leadership philosophy built on a simple belief: readiness isn't something you create in the moment. It's something you build lon...

How to Escape AI’s 'Open Bar' Era: Intelligent Token Routing

August 12, 2026

For the past few years, enterprise AI had an open tab. Experiment. Build. Give teams access. Put agents to work. Now those agents are running 24/7 and someone has finally looked at the bill.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, AMD’s John Hampton and WWT’s Mike Trojecki dig into what happens when AI moves from experimentation to a real operating expense. Scaling it doesn’t mean simply spending more on compute. It means knowing when a workload needs a frontier model, when it doesn’...