Wu: Rapid model leadership shifts deter enterprises from single-vendor lock-in
Scott Wu · Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Jul 27, 2026 · at 25:40
Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, explains why enterprises prefer model-neutral AI agent platforms rather than committing exclusively to tools from frontier AI research labs.
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“Obviously, the way enterprises work is they want to have long-term partnerships, and frankly, it's just hard to know what's going to happen in the long term, right? Like, who even is going to have the best model in six months, or 12 months, or whatever, and I mean, I think that's very reasonable, you know, like, you don't want to teach all of your engineers, or your entire team, how to use one particular suite, and one particular product, and then find out, oh, actually, it's Turns out people aren't using this one anymore because everyone says this other one is better or something, right?”
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