Enterprise hits and misses - Google makes its agentic control play, AI vendor lock-in data is in, and event season hits peak frenzy

Will agentic AI lead to vendor lock in all over again - round 232? It's a fair question, one that Katy delves into, via a survey of 542 US executives by AI orchestration platform provider Zapier:

The research itself does not specify what type of AI is being discussed, so it is probably fair to surmise that it is predominantly reflecting adoption of Gen AI machine learning models. Generative AI has many layers of vendor-dependence to unpick. For example, machine learning models require infrastructure scale that typically locks organization into contracts with hyperscalers or with specialised AI infrastructure providers.

Almost half of the executives said if they moved AI vendors, something would break, but they also expressed confidence in making a vendor switch. Gotcha - it's never that easy. as Katy notes:

When probed on their experience migrating between AI platforms, experience did not bear such optimism out. Two-thirds have ...