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AI adoption field notes

First-hand experience on assessment, cost, and production — written for the enterprise decision-makers evaluating AI.

Field notes

The two pillars of a successful PoC: from demo to production

A successful proof of concept rests on two pillars: thorough requirement preparation and a strong implementation team. This post breaks down what each pillar demands, what to avoid, and how cross-border co-development strengthens both.

August 3, 20267 min read

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Token capital: the asset every firm actually needs to build

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls it token capital — the AI capability a firm builds and owns. The real opportunity isn't picking the best model; it's building a learning loop that compounds. Where should a company start?

July 16, 20264 min read

AI cost governanceenterprise AI adoption

AI cost governance: manage where every dollar goes, not just the total

AI cost governance isn't about cutting the bill — it's making every unit of AI usage attributable, budgetable, and auditable. Four patterns to turn AI cost from a black box into a dashboard.

July 16, 20264 min read

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Standing on a new horizon: introducing the new Horizon AI brand identity

AI is rewriting every industry at breakneck speed. After showing at COMPUTEX and launching the ATP Token platform, Horizon AI is unveiling a new brand identity: a redrawn symbol, a Chinese wordmark, bilingual logos, a new website built around circulating intelligence, and interfaces in four languages.

July 14, 20265 min read

Enterprise AI adoptionIndustry trends

Which industries adopt AI fastest? A compute supplier's three-year view

From e-commerce marketing to healthcare, biotech, and quant trading — three years on the front line of compute supply reveal which industries adopt AI most smoothly, how a NT$2.6 million monthly bill fell to NT$500,000, and the real key to successful adoption: not budget, but organizational culture.

July 13, 20266 min read

ComputeToken economy

Tokens are the data fee of a new era: is Taiwan's compute abundant or scarce?

Tokens are becoming the telecom bill of the AI era. From the vantage point of a front-line compute supplier: the truth about Taiwan's "abundant" compute, what an AI data center really costs, the 1,000x scale gap between Taiwan and the US, and how power limits stall sovereign AI.

July 13, 20266 min read

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Why 85% of enterprise AI projects fail: four causes and how to fix them

Industry data shows 85% of enterprise AI projects stall at the proof-of-concept stage. The failure modes cluster into four areas: runaway cost, security risk, the pilot-to-production gap, and integration. Here is a concrete fix for each.

July 12, 20264 min read

AI adoption costcost governance

How to budget for enterprise AI adoption: from model usage to operations

The budget for enterprise AI adoption has three parts: one-time development, usage-based model costs, and ongoing operations. Here is how to estimate each, and how to make the AI bill predictable through governance.

July 9, 20264 min read

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The complete guide to enterprise AI adoption: seven steps from assessment to production (2026 edition)

How do you start enterprise AI adoption? This guide breaks down the seven steps from use-case mapping and data assessment through PoC to production, what each step should produce, and the pitfalls to avoid.

July 6, 20264 min read

Newsroom

Press releases and media coverage from Horizon AI and parent company KONST.

PressVietnam

14 Taiwan AI startups head to Vietnam for partnerships as Horizon AI opens co-development with SotaTek

Vietnam Taiwan Tech Solution Day 2026 brought 14 Taiwan AI startups to Ho Chi Minh City in search of local partnerships. Horizon AI opened co-development with Vietnamese deep-tech team SotaTek and shared the two pillars behind a successful PoC.

July 31, 2026VnEconomy

PressKONST

From crypto-mining farms to a new world of AI compute: Darren Su on Black Swan Academy EP286

Darren Su, CEO of Horizon AI and co-founder and chief strategy officer of KONST, joined Black Swan Academy EP286 to trace the path from a converted mining farm to a global AI data center footprint, explain the group's three-layer structure, and discuss the token economy and Taiwan's compute market.

July 5, 2026黑天鵝學院 EP286 (Black Swan Academy EP286, Smart 智富)

PressKONST

ADATA plans Southeast Asia AI compute centers, with a Thailand visit to deepen industry ties

ADATA chairman Chen Li-Pai led partners on a visit to Thailand, working with group AI compute company KONST to assess building an AI compute center in the Eastern Economic Corridor. Analysts see KONST as a key partner in ADATA's overseas AI compute strategy.

June 23, 2026經濟日報/工商時報 (Economic Daily News / Commercial Times)

PressKONST

KONST sets out to build Asia's largest token factory

At COMPUTEX 2026, under the theme The Heart of AI, KONST announced plans to build Asia's largest token factory: producing tokens at scale, stably and affordably, and supplying global applications directly through a Token API.

June 5, 2026DIGITIMES

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KONST wins the 2025 投資典範獎 investment award for building sovereign AI compute in Taiwan

Founded in 2017 out of a crypto-mining operation, KONST has grown through a rental business model and modular compute centers into one of Taiwan's largest private AI compute providers, with self-built nodes across Japan and Southeast Asia.

April 21, 2026經濟日報 (Economic Daily News)

PressKONST

ADATA leads US$3 million Series A round in AI compute startup KONST

AI compute infrastructure startup KONST has closed US$3 million in funding led by memory maker ADATA. The two companies will build a vertically integrated stack from memory hardware to compute centers, targeting the sovereign AI market.

March 27, 2026ABMedia (鏈新聞)

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KONST showcases AI compute at Business Weekly's AI New Winners Summit

KONST exhibited at Business Weekly's AI New Winners Summit, focusing on the four challenges enterprises face when adopting AI and presenting an integrated solution built on three deployment models: cloud compute rental, colocation, and on-premises data centers.

September 19, 2025SETN (三立新聞網)

PressKONST

What is a shared GPU? How GPU-rental startup KONST drew 100,000 customers worldwide

KONST has closed a funding round of tens of millions of dollars and will expand compute centers across Asia, North America, and Europe. After pivoting from crypto mining to AI compute, its Glows.ai platform maximizes efficiency through three signature features and has drawn more than 100,000 registered customers worldwide.

January 26, 2025數位時代/創業小聚 (Business Next / Meet Startup)

More media coverage

KONST opens new headquarters; revenue projected to grow 20× year-on-year, IPO targeted for 2027

May 23, 2026 · Taiwan · 工商時報

16+ outlets covered this

CILAB signs MOU with 6 companies to build a Honam-region AI data center

May 11, 2026 · South Korea · Naver / ZDNet Korea

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ADATA leads KONST's US$3M Series A, targeting the Asia-Pacific AI compute infrastructure gap

March 20, 2026 · Taiwan · 經濟日報

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USPACE deepens its KONST partnership, using GPU cloud to strengthen AI compute for multi-site smart-parking upgrades

March 5, 2026 · Taiwan · Yahoo 雅虎新聞

15+ outlets covered this