Microsoft and Amazon devote billions of dollars to thousands of FDEs

Systems integrators (SIs) have been integral to IT projects for decades, providing consulting services and helping enterprises build and launch technology tools. Now, as organizations move to deploy agentic AI, top large language model (LLM) providers are looking to get in on that action. A proliferation of Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) services embeds AI experts directly into customer teams to help create, customize, and launch AI services.