What's Going To Change About AI In The Enterprise In 2026
Techstrong.ai, Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Much of 2025's AI news chased the latest generative model releases. As the foundation model market matures, that hype will matter less in 2026, but will there still be noticeable shifts?
Absolutely. Independents like OpenAI are scrambling to diversify, turning assets into hard tangibles such as data center bricks and chips, while giants like Google leverage their vertical stacks, from bare metal to massive interaction channels, backed by adjacent businesses that fund it all, challenging NVIDIA's dominance as well.
Meanwhile, clever innovators could still rewrite the scaling laws that define the link between model quality, compute, and data. And Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Qwen are gaining momentum in the open-source space. Yet for now, the foundation model market is trending towards a broader range of models that are better, cheaper, and faster, and is clearly on a path to further commoditization.