OpenAI launched a fourteen-billion-dollar deployment company on May 11, adopting the forward-deployed engineer model one month after this journal argued it was dying. The model maker became the consulting firm because deployment carries margins that inference does not. OpenAI launched a standalone Deployment Company on May 11. Valued at fourteen billion dollars, backed by four billion in external capital from nineteen investors, and staffed with engineers who embed inside client organizations to write code against production data. The company that proved APIs could replace on-site human deployment just spent billions adopting the model it was supposed to render obsolete. The Reversal In April, this journal argued that delivery model determines the axis of competition in enterprise AI. Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineers were the moat. Anthropic's API found a path around it. The market repriced Palantir by twenty-three billion dollars in a single session.…