Decagon Founders on Building Enterprise AI Agents and Open-Source Inference
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-07-31
The a16z podcast hosted Decagon co-founders Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas to discuss the evolution and scaling of enterprise AI agents.
Key Insights:
- Open Source Adoption: Decagon shifted most of its inference workloads to open-source models to optimize latency, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
- Beyond APIs: Production-grade enterprise AI requires significantly more than just plugging into frontier models, including forward-deployed engineering.
- App Layer Resilience: Application companies continue to thrive alongside foundation labs by solving specific business needs.
- Workflow Automation: Their agents are deployed by large enterprises to automate customer support, sales, and operational workflows.
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