Agent Labs: Welcome to GPT Wrapper Summer

Model Diversity. the number of relevant frontier Model Labs has gone UP, not down, including Chinese/US open model labs, which means 1) you can capabilitymaxx across all of them, 2) people want to pay someone to capabilitymaxx for them for the literal full time job of keeping up with the state of the art and building the best combination of model and harness to the task. Often it’s an inhouse AI czar, but as this speciality deepends, it’s Agent Labs.

Agents are Systems. The Model Selector is a Lie. Agents in the real world are bundles of (model, prompt, memories, tools, planning, orchestration, auth) so the competitive advantage of model labs in building such end to end systems declines since they are primarily differentiated in the model layer.