Bose: Forking open-source models leaves software companies 3–6 months behind
Arnab Bose · Should Software Companies Embrace AI or fight it? — With Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose · Apr 7, 2026 · at 34:03
Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer of Asana, discusses why Asana avoids running open-source models and focuses R&D on proprietary enterprise context layers.
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“If you create a fork and you're always three to six months behind what your, Competition could be doing. You know, like there'll be other companies, I'm sure, who are thinking about some of the challenges that we are addressing at Asana. I don't want to be three to six months behind them. That'll be a big problem for me. So I'd rather stay at the edge in terms of model capability and then ensure that all of my R&D resources are dedicated towards building the differentiation that we have with the human AI coordination experience”
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