The market is telling the hyperscalers no more money for you. You are reckless. These companies think they are paragons and fabulous stewards of our capital. If that's the case why are they spending more money on the lowest part of the tech food chain?
Google, Microsoft and Salesforce are backing a new AI software standard aimed at keeping enterprise apps at the center of workplace automation.
This could blunt OpenAI and Anthropic’s push to make ChatGPT and Claude the main gateway for work AI.
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@FlippieFinance Pre-IPO AI hype is easy. Once public, financial reality hits — growth and profit pressure crushes the stock, and they end up fighting for scraps inside existing SaaS ecosystems.
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The recent rumor by Microsoft hosting a Microsoft Version of DeepSeek is a validation point on what we're likely to see going forward.
Microsoft is seeing its stock price crater in real time and are taking steps to protect margins and FCF. As much as they believe in AI being a winner for them long term, they're no longer hiding their efficiency drive. The model layer is the most commodizable part of the whole ecosystem, especially for simpler tasks.
This is the same playbook that every SaaS vendor is going to use going forward. Build SaaS products around the most cost efficient models and charge clients based on usage. Customers will sign up in droves because it will be essentially "Free" to try but once they are hooked, they will become junkies forever.
$ADBE is already leaning into this Freemium model with huge demand and likely will convert users later.
We're expanding our partnership with @Databricks to help organizations create a shared foundation for human and agent work.
As work increasingly happens through agents, automation, and conversational interfaces, having a complete, unified view of your business has never been more essential. By connecting governed enterprise data with customer and operational context, Salesforce and Databricks are empowering organizations to turn deep understanding into trusted, seamless action.
“The challenge is no longer building more agents. It’s giving agents the trusted data, business context, governance, and workflows required to operate safely at enterprise scale,” said Rahul Auradkar, President and GM, Data Foundations, Salesforce. “Together, Salesforce and Databricks are helping customers build a new operating model where humans and agents work side by side to accelerate productivity and business growth.”
To create this shared foundation, we are expanding our partnership across three key areas:
1. Governed Business Context: We are expanding our Zero Copy integration to extend trust controls across both platforms. With capabilities like Federated Authentication and identity mapping, organizations can ensure users and AI agents operate against the exact same governed enterprise context, permissions, and security controls—regardless of where the data resides.
2. Cross-Platform Discovery & Action: We are making it effortless to take action without custom integrations. Through Federated Search and bi-directional Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, users and agents can seamlessly discover information and work across Salesforce and Databricks.
3. Enterprise Context in the Flow of Work: We are bringing Databricks-powered insights and AI experiences directly into Slack. Whether it's asking Databricks Genie about inventory risks or getting real-time threat alerts through Databricks Lakewatch, teams and agents can access trusted information and accelerate decision-making without ever switching systems.
“Salesforce and Databricks help us bring together fan data from across our business into a trusted foundation for AI. With that context, our teams and agents can better understand each fan, recommend the next best action, and create more personalized experiences across every interaction.” — Joey Graziano, Chief Commercial Officer at Pacers Sports & Entertainment.
The gap between reasoning and action is officially closed.
Humans and agents, working side-by-side on a single, trusted foundation.
This is the new operating model for the enterprise.
A few thoughts that come up from this suspension of Fable/Mythos:
1. Even if this decision is changed the move set a precedence. Investors investing in AI model providers will start to price for this risk. The idea of one company monopolizing and developing “digital god” and reaping all the economic benefits of it is dead. This opens the question of the ability of these top frontier AI labs to pay for the big compute commitments.
2. Enterpises will rush to orchestration platforms as they will want to have the option to switch between different AI model providers with ease not just because of effectivness of models but also because of the risk that the model or provider is banned by the government. Hyperscalers are in a great position to be that orchestration layer between different providers.
3. There is going to be an acceleration of AI models exclusive for specific vertical use-cases (models that dont have cyber or other capabilities so the chances of gov reach is lower), competiton here is going to expand to outside of the top 3 AI labs IMO.
20 months leading up to the Dotcom peak:
Nasdaq: +290%
Berkshire Hathaway: −45%
Every newspaper headline was about Buffett had lost his touch.
Then everything fell apart.
The Nasdaq lost 78%.
Berkshire compounded and outperformed for the next few decades.