Most enterprise AI strategy is organised around the wrong question. Not "which model?" but "how do we govern inference at scale?" F5's 2026 State of Application Strategy Report finds organisations running 7 models on average in production. 78% operate their own inference. Only 28% have a single management point across them. The model is an execution engine. The control plane around it is where value and risk concentrate. Enterprises that haven't built that layer yet are managing 7 production systems without unified traffic management, a consistent security policy, or shared observability. That's not an AI problem. It's an architecture problem. And most organisations are already inside it. the-sourcecode.com/ai-tech/f5-202… #EnterpriseAI #AIInfrastructure #Inference #f5ve