Mixture of Experts The new AI race: Enterprise innovation in 2026
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Jan 23, 2026 Join Chris Hay, a Distinguished Engineer with deep AI expertise; Gabe Goodhart, an AI architect specializing in open-source innovation; and Francesco Brenna, a VP focused on AI strategy, as they dive into the evolving landscape of AI. They discuss the implications of OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT, the surge of Claude Code, and how it transforms software development. The conversation also explores shifts in enterprise strategies towards AI-powered innovation and the future of agent APIs with Hugging Face's Open Responses, raising crucial questions about transparency and user trust.
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Ads Are Inevitable For Large-Scale AI
- OpenAI plans to introduce ads in ChatGPT to subsidize high inference costs and free tiers.
- Panelists expect ads to become a common model but worry about trust and product integrity.
Protect Conversational Privacy Proactively
- Demand product-level firewalls so ad profiles do not alter generated content or leak to advertisers.
- Insist providers explicitly promise not to use conversational data to target users.
Form Factor Trumps Tool Complexity
- Claude Code's form factor and context tricks moved coding agents past the uncanny valley into trusted tooling.
- Small toolsets (fetch, grep, file access) plus good context handling drove broad practical adoption.
