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Jain: Enterprise AI adoption hurdle is Chinese model origin, not open source

Arvind Jain · ⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jul 11, 2026 · at 13:53

Arvin Jain is the founder and CEO of Glean, a $7.2B enterprise AI platform. He addresses enterprise adoption of open-source artificial intelligence versus closed-source frontier models.

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“From a point of view of open source and using the model, everybody's going to be fine. The question is going to be, are they okay with the Chinese model or not? That's the only question here. It's not open source versus closed source.”

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