Two major labs have placed structurally opposite bets on how AI agents will scale in the business world. Understanding the bets requires understanding where they sit on a larger map — the full arc of AI infrastructure development, the current position of enterprise adoption on the S-curve, and the structural forces shaping what comes next.
That is the actual state of the agentic enterprise market in early 2026. Not a mature market. Not even a growth market in the traditional sense. A market that is, right now, crossing the most dangerous gap in technology adoption — the chasm between early adopters and the early majority. The two agent bets are, at root, two theories about how to cross it, and two very different visions of what the ecosystem looks like on the other side...
