You picked your LLM, you picked your use case, and now someone hands you a list of hosting options that all sound like they solve the same problem. They donโt. In this episode, Tim Harting and Gavin Franklin of Cirrius Solutions break down the three real hosting models for AI agents - self-hosted, software-aligned, and the new wave of provider-hosted options from Anthropic and OpenAI - and how to decide which one fits which agent.
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Technology leaders, architects, and AI/platform teams choosing where their agents will run - and trying to avoid locking the whole company into a single platform before the use cases are even mapped.
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Tim Harting and Gavin Franklin lead Agentic AI strategy and delivery at Cirrius Solutions, a consulting firm working at the intersection of cloud, software engineering, data, and AI. Theyโre rolling these hosting decisions out with real customers every week and watching the provider landscape shift in real time.
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Grab the companion artifact from the show notes - itโs the side-by-side decision framework for the three hosting models, plus the Anthropic vs. OpenAI comparison. Follow Cirrius Talk: Agentic AI for more episodes that cut through the noise.
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