Enterprises Orchestrate Across Model Vendors
Large enterprises will keep routing AI workloads across closed and open models through in-house orchestration and governance platforms. This caps any single lab's pricing power and lock-in, and shifts value toward the routing layer and toward the cheapest model that is good enough for each task.
forming · confidence 35 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since October 17, 2026 · updated October 17, 2026
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OpenAI's own case study features Itaú, yet the bank routes work across closed and open models and governs them through its in-house IARA platform, which limits how much leverage any single vendor, OpenAI included, gains.
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Supporting · October 17, 2026
Itaú builds its ia.i assistant on a multi-vendor model stack as it extends access from 300,000 customers to its full base
OpenAI's own case study features Itaú, yet the bank routes work across closed and open models and governs them through its in-house IARA platform, which limits how much leverage any single vendor, OpenAI included, gains.
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