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jesse zang

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CEO of Decagon, an AI customer service agent company using 90%+ open-source models in production, 5x revenue growth year-over-year, building self-improving agent architecture called Duet.

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Decagon CEO: 90% open-source models in production, 5x revenue growth

Decagon uses 90%+ open-source models for production-scale customer service agents where latency and cost matter, while reserving frontier closed-source models for general-purpose reasoning tasks like their Duet product; company has 5xed revenue last year and targets similar growth.

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HIGHjesse zang·The Information·2 months ago·Where is Open Source AI Better?
Decagon CEO: 90% open-source models in production, 5x revenue growth
Decagon uses 90%+ open-source models for production-scale customer service agents where latency and cost matter, while reserving frontier closed-source models for general-purpose reasoning tasks like their Duet product; company has 5xed revenue last year and targets similar growth.
"we are pretty much 90 plus% open source at this point ... last year we were like roughly 5xed. This year probably want to do roughly the same."
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Open Source AImixed
Open source AI wins in scaled production; closed source dominates experimentation
Jesse Zang argues open-source models excel in production-scale use cases with known structure (latency, cost benefits), while closed-source frontier models remain essential for new, undefined use cases and general-purpose reasoning; most enterprise use cases are still in experimentation phase, keeping closed-source dominant in share.
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Enterprise AI Adoptionmixed
Enterprise AI stuck in experimentation phase, delaying open-source adoption
Most enterprise AI use cases remain in experimentation rather than scaled production, which favors closed-source frontier models; open-source adoption accelerates only when use cases are solidified and deployed at scale, creating a lag in open-source share despite growing absolute usage.
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AI Agentstailwind
Duet architecture pairs fast open-source agents with slow frontier models for self-improving customer service
Decagon's Duet product uses a fast open-source model for real-time customer interaction and a slower frontier model (Opus 4, Fable) to analyze conversations and automatically write/fix workflows, creating a self-improving agent loop that reduces human eval burden.