Jesse Zhang

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Jul 30, 2026 bearish

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Zhang: Enterprise share of open-source AI inference is currently declining

“In enterprises right now, even though there's a lot of hype for open source, the sort of share of open source inference is actually Going down right now because people are spinning up all these new use cases.”

Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 8:33 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models

Jul 30, 2026 neutral

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Zhang: Enterprise adoption of open-source AI will take longer than expected

“I think they'll get there, but it'll probably take longer than people think because, you know, even with our team, fine tuning these models is non-trivial.”

Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 7:19 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models

Jul 30, 2026 neutral

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Zhang: AI agents allow enterprise customers to drastically reduce or eliminate BPOs

“There are definitely scenarios where people use their BPOs a lot less or Don't need the BPO anymore.”

Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 1:18:49 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models

Jul 30, 2026 bullish

Insight

Zhang: Open-source AI is strictly better once production use cases solidify

“But I think the point is that at a certain point, it's strictly better to use open source models because when your use case is solidified and you're in production at scale and you're pretty sure this is the sort of shape of the agent, then there's no reason no…”

Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 7:48 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models

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