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so if you've been paying attention to enterprise AI announcements, you've probably noticed something shift in the last year or so. it's not about bigger models anymore—everyone's got that part figured out. what's actually happening now is all these companies are scrambling to make their AI agents talk to each other.

right now? most agents are stuck in walled gardens. your company's got an agent doing X, mine's doing Y, and they literally can't collaborate unless someone manually bridges them. which is... not great when you want to actually automate something complex.

what's changing is the push for open standards and interoperability protocols. basically, the idea that agents from different platforms should just... work together. sounds simple but it's the actual bottleneck nobody wants to admit they hit.

and here's the thing—it's finally moving past "proof of concept" phase. bigger organizations especially are actually deploying agents into production now, not just running pilots in isolated teams. i'm not 100% sure how fast adoption spreads to mid-market companies yet, but the momentum's there.

the real question is whether these interoperability standards actually stick or if we end up with five competing "open" standards that don't talk to each other anyway. anyone working on this stuff seeing it actually work, or is it still mostly vaporware?

sources: InfoWorld | Deloitte