What 'Bring Your Own Model' (BYOK) Actually Means When You Adopt AI at Work (opens in new tab)

"Bring your own key" / "bring your own model" (BYOK) gets thrown around in AI product copy without much explanation. For anyone choosing an AI tool for a team, it's one of the few architectural decisions that's genuinely hard to reverse — so it's worth understanding properly. The short version BYOK means you supply the model and the API credentials the platform runs on, instead of the platform reselling you a model at its own markup and on its own terms. You point the tool at your OpenAI / An...