Lithuania investor summit: regulation, not cost, drives local AI adoption in business
EmilPi · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit attendee shared AI observations from the AmCham Lithuania Foreign Investors Annual Summit 2026. Antonio di Marzo (Head of Applied AI EU at EPAM) covered local AI: "hiring" agents partly meant making them independent from cloud APIs, and good engineers were acknowledged as a must, with best practices translated into managerial language.
An informal survey: one bank adopted local AI, one law firm is considering it but thinks only large firms win—their biggest driver is regulatory requirements, not cost. The bigger pain point for business/SaaS is providers sunsetting model APIs, which breaks prompts and agents. SaaS feels pressure from vibe-coded in-house tools but sees it as non-critical; a SaaS leader called the idea that agents replace engineers a misconception. The author views decision models (e.g. Jev) as hype, though researchers buy in.
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