Ghai: Proprietary enterprise data is AI's only truly novel asset
Jitesh Gai · Is Unstructured Data The Key To Successful AI Deployments? · Jun 16, 2026 · at 4:38
Hyland CEO Jitesh Gai discusses AI competitive moats with Alex Kantrowitz, explaining why internal enterprise data provides context that foundation model labs cannot access.
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“I think what is truly novel and unique Is an enterprise's data. It's their data. It is a living record of their enterprise, its decisions, its actions, its operations, and through it, you can get, you can realize enterprise context for that bespoke organization. This is not information that's available to the frontier labs. This is not information that's available beyond the boundaries of your organization.”
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