Liberty Global has effectively paid a third-party to take the Horizon video platform off its hands, in a deal wrapped up as a multi-year collaboration with consulting business Infosys. The deal to outsource set top software development is designed to shave $110 million from Liberty Global’s annual run-rate – by allowing artificial intelligence to decide Horizon’s future. Infosys will receive approximately $1.64 billion over the five-year contract – $330 million a year – to take on build and operations of the Horizon technology. There is even the possibility of extending the deal to 8 years, swelling the contract value to $2.5 billion. So, at a potential cost to Liberty Global of $500 million a year, just to save $100 million…