Digital Deification

Oct 13, 2026 · Industry Insights

AI's Second Half: Why Delivery Beats Parameters — The FDE Role in National Policy

China's 2026 national policy formally establishes Frontier Deployment Engineers (FDEs) as the linchpin of AI value delivery, mandating a shift from model-centric benchmarks to measurable business outcomes via a four-ring methodology and six-layer metrics framework that ties success to client financial, operational, and adoption indicators.