The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone

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Vytautas Savickas, CEO of Oxylabs, argues that AI’s biggest shift is moving from model performance to infrastructure reliability. As AI enters the agentic era, systems need fresh web data, browser automation and real-time access to operate in the real world. The companies that win AI, he says, will build the systems users trust the most, not necessarily the biggest models.

As thousands of engineers, founders and researchers gather in San Francisco for AI Engineer World’s Fair, much of the conversation is focused on increasingly capable models, autonomous agents and AI applications.

According to Vytautas Savickas, CEO of Oxylabs, however, the industry’s biggest shift is happening somewhere else.

For the past three years, AI has largely been a story about better models,” he says. “The next chapter is about everything around those models: the infrastructure, the systems and the live information that allow AI to...

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