# 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.

- Conviction: 35 / 100 (forming)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-17T06:37:20.600Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/trends/enterprise-multi-model-orchestration
- Publisher: Polylog

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Itaú builds its ia.i assistant on a multi-vendor model stack as it extends access from 300,000 customers to its full base (2026-10-17): 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.