Nitski: Forward-deployed AI services are only a short-term enterprise trend
Osvald Nitski · Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs · Jul 25, 2026 · at 19:00
Osvald Nitski, CPO at Mercor, responds to Harry Stebbings about whether services-heavy AI adoption models like Microsoft's and Palantir's represent the long-term future of enterprise AI.
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“I think it's the future for the short term as the knowledge of how to use AI gets disseminated throughout industry. We have basically a concentration of a bunch of people in San Francisco who really know how to deploy agents, eval agents, Be AI first in engineering and in, in other areas. That knowledge just isn't out there yet, and eventually it will be, and maybe you won't need at that point teams to go and set things up, set up AI agents for every enterprise, and it'll become more of like a job function, similar to software engineering.”
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