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Zhang: Vertical AI applications will outperform general lab-built agents
“The labs themselves will have more application capabilities, but those will be fairly general. Like they're, you can maybe build general agents that can do this thing or that thing. But for a lot of these like core verticals, like ours, our thesis is that, you…”
Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 18:36 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
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Zhang: Human careers will still exist after AGI
“The first thing I want to say is I'm like, certain there will be careers after AGI. The reason for that is, like, most of our jobs, for sure are for jobs, are kind of, like, made up. Most jobs are made up... So when AGI is here, like it will change people's jo…”
Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 29:25 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
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Zhang: Horizontal platforms will defeat pure vertical solutions in customer AI
“Our view, the reason why we've kind of built so horizontally is that we believe that in our space, the winners are going to be horizontal. There's just not that much that is like super verticalized that where like you could see a pure vertical solution survivi…”
Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 1:03:03 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
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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
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