Within a few weeks, three of the most watched private companies in the world all announced they’re headed for the public markets. It is a pointed reminder of how far we have come, and a fun distraction from the quarter’s more practical story. The same labs chasing trillion-dollar debuts spent the quarter packaging their models by industry and building firms to deploy them, because the hard part now is fitting the technology to real workflows. That deployment race is what has the potential to reshape your operations.

