Corporate Sovereignty in the Age of AI
Washington demanded Anthropic switch off its best model for non-US users. But the AI stack offers surprising ways to maintain sovereignty away from AI models
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Gartner has named agentic AI its top strategic technology trend for 2025, predicting 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously by 2028, up from 0% today. The open question for leaders: which gains are genuinely feasible now, not in 2028?
Washington demanded Anthropic switch off its best model for non-US users. But the AI stack offers surprising ways to maintain sovereignty away from AI models
Gartner says a third of enterprise software purchases will involve an AI agent by 2028, and machines are assumed immune to persuasion. We ran 8,000 trials across five frontier models. Which techniques work, which backfire, and what does that mean for selling to agents?
The gap between top models has collapsed to 5%, and GPT-3.5-level inference cost fell 280-fold in under two years. If AI is now a commodity, competitors can buy the same agent tomorrow. So where does durable advantage live, and why can't it be bought?