What AI vendor should you choose? Here are the top 7 (OpenAI still leads)

Vendors are deploying new generative AI tools every day in a market that has been likened to the Wild West. But because the technology is so new and ever-evolving, it can be extremely confusing, with platform providers making sometimes speculative promises.

IT firm GAI Insights hopes to bring some clarity to enterprise decision-makers with its release of the first known buyer’s guide to large language models (LLMs) and gen AI. It reviewed more than two dozen vendors, identifying seven emerging leaders (OpenAI is way ahead of the pack). Also, proprietary, open source and small models will all be in high demand in 2025 as the C-suite prioritizes AI spending. 

“We’re seeing real migration from awareness to early experimentation to really driving systems into production,” Paul Baier, GAI Insights CEO and co-founder, told VentureBeat. “This is exploding, AI is transforming the entire enterprise IT stack.”

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