Agent Companies

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20VC Insight
Atallah: AI agent companies have a clear incentive to build own models
“The companies that are like, that are known for making agents have an incentive to create their own model, a very clear incentive to create their own models and distribute it through the agent.”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 29:33 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
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Jain: AI agents and EHR platforms will battle over integration layers
“And I think the agent companies are going to try to go down, the platform companies are going to try to go up, and it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out over the next couple of years.”
Ankit Jain Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 28:47 Can AI Solve Healthcare's Urgent Workforce Challenges? w/ Ankit Jain
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
AI agent startups do not care about communicating with external agents
“We're investors in a bunch of agent companies. None of them really care about how to communicate with other agents. They're so focused internally”
Alessio Fanelli Aug 2, 2024 ▶ 1:07:15 The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)

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