The Open Architecture Advantage
Copyright: Sanjay Basu Why Oracle Is Betting the AI Future on Standards, Not Lock-In The AI platform wars are getting bloody. And Oracle just walked onto the battlefield unarmed. Deliberately. While hyperscalers race to trap enterprises in proprietary AI ecosystems, Oracle has made a counterintuitive bet: that the path to AI dominance runs through openness, not enclosure. They’re building their entire AI services platform around open frameworks, vendor-neutral protocols, and model agnosticism. In an industry obsessed with moats, Oracle is filling theirs in. This isn’t altruism. It’s strategy. And it might be the smartest move in enterprise AI today. The Model-as-a-Service Philosophy Here’s what OCI Generative AI looks like in early 2026: Cohere Command A and R+. Meta Llama 4 Maverick and Scout. Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and Flash-Lite. xAI Grok 3 and Grok 4. OpenAI gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. All accessible through a single, unified service. Teaser — More to come! Read...