Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan discuss the work the FinOps Foundation has been doing to help organizations get a better handle of cloud spending and the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) might have on that effort. Then, they take a hard look at the viability of Anthropic as an alternative to rival providers of large language model (LLM) platforms. Finally, the gang turns its attention to the resurgence of SUSE as a leader of the open source software community following its acquisition of StateStack.