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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Our debut at the Shropshire Business Festival on 11 April landed the same day as Google's AI Agents keynote, sparking lively discussion on generative AI and agents in the workplace. Thanks to Ben Simpson, Hugh Strickland and Chris Henderson.
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?